Bam

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Bam or BAM may mean:

Places:

• Bam, Iran
• Bam Province, Burkina Faso

People:

• Bam Margera, professional skateboarder and television personality
• Bam Bam Bigelow, former American professional wrestler

Buildings:

• Battle Mountain Airport (IATA airport code: BAM) in Battle Mountain, Nevada, United States
• Brooklyn Academy of Music, a cultural center in Brooklyn, New York
• Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, California, United States

Companies and organizations:

• BAM! Entertainment, a defunct software company
• BAM, Railway companies Bière-Apples-Morges (BAM) Switzerland, (frz.): Chemin de fer Bière-Apples-Morges
• Koninklijke BAM Groep (Royal BAM Group) is a Dutch construction firm.
• Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, the German standards institute
• Bell Atlantic Mobile, Now Verizon Wireless

As an acronym or code:

• Baikal Amur Mainline, a Siberian railway line
• Bambara language ISO 639 code
• Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone (BaM), characters on the soap opera All My Children
• Block allocation map
• Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah
• Board-a-match, a form of scoring at duplicate bridge
• Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the ISO 4217 currency code for the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Business Activity Monitoring, real-time monitoring of business processes
• Bonnier Amigo Music Group
• Burst Activity Management, a CAI Networks product feature
• Baluchi Autonomist Movement a Baluchi ethnic nationalist group.
• BAM (Bay Area Music), a defunct San Francisco music magazine
• BAM! Volume 1, an album by Sister Hazel
• BAM Racing, a NASCAR racing team

Computers:

• Bidirectional Associative Memory, a type of neural network
• Broadband Access Module, a piece of equipment at the ISP in ADSL networks

As a word or sound:

• An onomatopoeia for a sound, such as that of an explosion.