Ham (disambiguation)

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Ham is a cut of meat on an edible mammal's rear, usually from a pig.

Ham may also refer to:

• euphemestically, human buttocks, usually as a plurale tantum hams
• Ham, an amateur radio operator
• An actor who overacts or exaggerates.
• Ham, Kham, or Han, a tribe in the Himalayas
• The opposite of spam, i.e. regular email

In geography:

• Ham, London, England, near Richmond upon Thames
• Ham, Wiltshire, a village in England
• Ham, Caithness, in Scotland
• Ham, Shetland, in Scotland
• Ham (municipality), in Belgium
• Ham (Cergy), a small village to the south of Cergy, near Paris
• Ham, Somme, a commune in France
• Ham Lake, Minnesota
• Ham, Buenos Aires, a settlement in General Arenales Partido in Argentina

In music:

• Peter Ham, a Welsh singer
• HAM, an Icelandic metal band

As a personal name:

• Ham, son of Noah, in the Bible
• Ham the Chimp, the first U.S. higher primate in space
• Ken Ham, a creationist
• Mordecai Ham, an American Baptist evangelist

As an acronym:

• Hamburg Airport
• The Chapman code for the English county of Hampshire
• Hold And Modify, a screenmode of the Commodore Amiga computer
• Host Assisted Modulation or Host Signal Processing, digital signal processing by means of software
• His Apostolic Majesty

In literature:

• Ham, son of Noah, in the Bible
• Ham on Rye, a 1982 autobiographical novel by American author Charles Bukowski
• The nickname of Neanderthals, in the Science Fiction novel Manifold: Origin

[edit] See also

• Hamstring (muscle)
• East Ham
• West Ham
• South Hams
• Ham sandwich theorem
• Le Ham, two communes in the French Manche and Mayenne départments
• HAM SDK, an SDK used to write and compile programs (usually videogames) for the Game Boy Advance using the C and C++ coding languages
• Visual HAM, an IDE for the HAM SDK.
• Hamarkameratene, a Norwegian football team known as HamKam.
• Hamm (disambiguation)