Sam

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Sam or SAM may have one of the following meanings.

• Sam, a short for the names 'Samuel', 'Samantha', 'Samson' or 'Samwise'.
• Uncle Sam, a personification of the United States government.
• Sam (text editor), a text editor by Rob Pike.
• Sam (dog), a dog voted the world's ugliest dog for three years running.
• Sam (orangutan), from the movie Dunston Checks In.
• Sam, a sequel to the novel Jack Weyland's Charly.
• saṃ, a copulative or collectivizing prefix in Sanskrit

Acronyms and abbreviations

• SAM (Screen Activated Machine) - a self-service wagering terminal developed by Scientific Games Corporation
• SAM a series by Pro 7
• SAM a Greek truck manufacturer
• Sam., a reference to the Book of Samuel
• S.A.M. a Swedish automotive company
• SAM, the IOC and FIFA country code for the American Samoa
• SAM, the Southern Annular Mode also known as the Antarctic oscillation
• S-adenosyl methionine
• Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
• Seattle Art Museum
• Secure Access Module
• Security Account Manager, the accounts database used by Microsoft Windows NT
• Self-assembled monolayer
• Sequential Access Memory
• Small article monitor
• Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín, a Colombian airline
• Society of American Magicians
• Software Automatic Mouth
• Student Association of Missouri
• Surface-to-air missile
• System Administration Manager HP-UX System Administration Manager
• Sympathetic adrenal medullary system, related to the sympathetic nervous system

Fictional Characters

• Sam (Retroville) The owner the Candy Bar in the Nickelodeon TV Series-The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Sam (Totally Spies), a character from the series Totally Spies.
• Sam the Eagle, a character on The Muppet Show
• Samwise Gamgee, an important character in Tolkien's novel, The Lord of the Rings.
• Secret Asian Man is an Asian American comic strip character.
• Sam, counterpart to Max in Steve Purcell's comic Sam & Max.