PAM

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Pam or PAM may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

• PAM Transport, a trucking company in Arkansas
• Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad reporting mark
• Agrarian Party of Moldova, or Partidul Agrar din Moldova
• Authenticity and Modernity Party, or Parti Authenticité et Modernité, a political party in Morocco
• People's Action Movement, a political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Pharmaceutical Association of Mauritius
• Portland Art Museum, in Portland, Oregon
• World Food Programme, also known as Programme alimentaire mondial

In military use

• P.A.M. 1 & P.A.M. 2 (Pistola Ametrelladora Modelo), Argentine submachine gun based on the U.S. M3 "Grease Gun"
• Permanent Active Militia (Canada)
• Policy Analysis Market, an abandoned DARPA program
• Precision Attack Munition, an abandoned artillery missile project
• Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida, US (IATA code PAM)

People

• Pamela (name), abbreviated form
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), nicknamed Pam
• Avraham Yaakov Pam (1913–2001), rosh yeshiva in New York
• David Pam (1920–2014), British historian
• Max Pam (born 1949), Australian photographer

In science and technology

In biology and medicine

• Pancreatic acinar metaplasia, in gastroenterology
• PAM (gene), human gene that encodes peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase
• 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

In computing

• Pluggable authentication modules (also known as X/Open Single Sign-on), a Unix authentication framework
  • OpenPAM
  • Linux PAM
• PAM graphics format, used by Netpbm
• Privileged account management

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
• Pulse-amplitude modulation, a technique for encoding information onto a series of signal pulses

Other uses

• Cyclone Pam, a tropical cyclone from the 2014–15 South Pacific cyclone season
• Cyclone Pam (1997)
• Pam, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
• Pam, a name for the Jack of Clubs in the card game Lanterloo or Loo
• Perpetual art machine, a video art project
• Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion, US
• Kapampangan language (ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code pam)
• PAM (cooking oil), a brand of cooking spray, originally Product of Arthur Meyerhoff

See also

• All pages beginning with "Pam"
• All pages beginning with "PAM"