Pam or PAM may refer to:

Geography

  • Pam, Iran, a village in Markazi Province
  • Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM), United States
  • Pam Islands, Papua New Guinea

People and fictional characters

  • Pam (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
  • Pam (surname), a list of people
  • Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), nicknamed Pam

Arts and entertainment

  • "Pam" (song), by Justin Quiles, Daddy Yankee and El Alfa
  • Progressive Art Movement, a 1970s art movement in Adelaide, South Australia
  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, United States
  • Pam the Bird, a common graffiti tag in Melbourne, Victoria
  • Performing Arts Museum, former name of the Australian Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne, Australia
  • Pam, a name for the jack of clubs in the card game Lanterloo or Loo

Military

  • P.A.M. 1 & P.A.M. 2 (), an Argentine submachine gun based on the US M3 "Grease Gun"
  • Permanent Active Militia, predecessor of the Canadian Army
  • Policy Analysis Market, an abandoned DARPA program
  • Precision Attack Munition, an abandoned artillery missile project
  • M150 Penetration Augmented Munition, an explosive device developed for the US Air Force
  • Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida, US (IATA code PAM)

Organizations

Political parties

  • Agrarian Party of Moldova, or
  • Authenticity and Modernity Party, or Parti Authenticité et Modernité, a political party in Morocco
  • Party of the Vlachs of Macedonia, known in Aromanian as
  • People's Action Movement, a political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Other organizations

  • PAM Health, formerly Post Acute Medical
  • Pont-à-Mousson Company, French iron pipe manufacturer (established 1856)
  • Service Union United (), a trade union in Finland
  • World Food Programme, also known as Programme alimentaire mondial, a United Nations organization

Science and technology

Biology and healthcare

  • PAM (gene), human gene that encodes peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase
  • Pancreatic acinar metaplasia, in gastroenterology
  • Photoacoustic microscopy, a type of photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine
  • Pneumatic artificial muscles, used in artificial limbs
  • Point accepted mutation, a type of similarity matrix in computational biology
  • Positive allosteric modulator, in pharmacology
  • Pralidoxime, 2-PAM, or pyridine aldoximine methiodide; an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
  • Pregnancy-associated malaria
  • Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
  • Protospacer adjacent motif, a genetic DNA recognition sequence

Computing

  • PAM graphics format, used by Netpbm
  • PAM library, Parallel Augmented Map, a parallel library for ordered sets and maps using balanced binary trees
  • Pluggable authentication modules (also known as X/Open Single Sign-on), a Unix authentication framework
  • OpenPAM
  • Linux PAM
  • Privileged access management, a type of cybersecurity tool

Other uses in science and technology

  • Partitioning Around Medoids, in statistics, a data clustering algorithm
  • Payload Assist Module, a small rocket engine, also referred to as a PAM-D
  • Phone-as-Modem, sharing a phone's internet connection with other devices
  • Polyacrylamide, a polymer
  • Positive electrode Active Material, the surface layer of the positive electrode of a rechargeable battery
  • Pulse-amplitude modulation, a technique for encoding information onto a series of signal pulses

Storms

  • Cyclone Pam (1974)
  • Cyclone Pam (1997)
  • Cyclone Pam, a tropical cyclone from the 2014–15 South Pacific cyclone season

Other uses

  • PAM (cooking oil), a brand of cooking spray, acronym of "Product of Arthur Meyerhoff"
  • PAM Transport, a trucking company in Arkansas
  • Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad, reporting mark PAM
  • Kapampangan language (ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code pam), in the Philippines
  • Pam language, a nearly extinct language of northern Cameroon

See also

  • PAMS (disambiguation)