Bam

Bam or BAM may refer to:

Extraterrestrial

 * Bam (crater), a crater on Mars
 * 2031 BAM, an asteroid

Terrestrial

 * Bam (neighborhood), Tirana, Albania
 * Bam, Amur Oblast, a rural locality in Amur Oblast, Russia
 * Bam, Esfarayen, a village in Esfarayen County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
 * Bam, Iran, a city in Kerman Province, Iran
 * Arg-e Bam, an ancient citadel destroyed by an earthquake in 2003 in Kerman Province, Iran
 * Bam, Jajrom, a village in Jajrom County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
 * Bam County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
 * Bam Province, Burkina Faso
 * Bam Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Iran
 * Lake Bam, Burkina Faso
 * Bam Island (Papua New Guinea), in the Schouten Islands

People

 * Bam (nickname)
 * Bam (surname)

Music

 * BAM, an alternative name for the British duo Bars and Melody
 * BAM! Volume 1, an album by Sister Hazel
 * Bam (song), a song by Jay-Z featuring Damian Marley
 * "Bam", a song by Atmosphere from the album You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
 * "BAM", a song by Miranda Cosgrove from the album Sparks Fly

Other arts, entertainment, and media

 * BAM (film), a 2015 animated short by Howie Shia
 * BAM (magazine) (Bay Area Music), a defunct San Francisco music magazine (1976–1999)
 * BAM, a form of scoring in duplicate contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
 * Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone (BaM), characters on the soap opera All My Children
 * Big Ass Monster, used to describe tougher than normal computer-controlled video game opponents, notably in TERA
 * Black Arts Movement in America, 1970s
 * Black American music, an umbrella term for music developed by African-Americans, especially jazz
 * MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), a streaming service of Major League Baseball
 * Radio Bam, a Sirius radio station from 2004 to 2013

Brands and enterprises

 * BAM! Entertainment, a dormant video game publisher founded in 1999
 * Banca Agricola Mantovana, a defunct Italian bank
 * Books-A-Million or BAM!, an American book retailer
 * Bromma Air Maintenance, a Swedish aerospace services company
 * Brookfield Asset Management, a Canadian financial services company
 * Royal BAM Group, a Dutch-based construction corporation
 * BAM Nuttall, a British construction subsidiary of Royal BAM Group

Languages

 * bam, ISO 639-2 and 630-3 code for the Bambara language, spoken in Mali
 * Bam or Biem language, spoken in New Guinea
 * Bam, a dialect of the Wantoat language, spoken in Papua New Guinea

Arts and entertainment

 * Baluchi Autonomist Movement, a Baluchi ethnic nationalist group
 * BAM Racing, a NASCAR racing team
 * Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley, California, United States
 * Boise Art Museum in Boise, Idaho
 * Brooklyn Academy of Music, a performing arts venue in New York City
 * Brotherhood of Auckland Magicians (BAM), a New Zealand-based non-for-profit organisation and magic club

Other organizations

 * Bishop Abraham Memorial College, Thurithicadu, Kerala, India
 * Born Again Movement, or Zhongshengpai, a Chinese Christian religious movement
 * Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin

Biology

 * Populus balsamifera, also known as Bam, the balsam poplar

Computing

 * Bidirectional associative memory, a type of neural network
 * Block availability map, a computer file system of Commodore DOS
 * Business activity monitoring, real-time monitoring of business processes
 * BOINC Account Manager (BAM!) for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing software
 * Binary angular measurement, a digital representation of angles used by computers

Medicine

 * Bile acid malabsorption, a gut-related problem
 * Bosma arhinia microphthalmia, an extremely rare genetic disorder in which both arhinia and microphthalmia are present
 * Bamlanivimab, an experimental antibody treatment for COVID-19

Other science and technology

 * BAM, a ceramic alloy, aluminium magnesium boride
 * Beta attenuation monitoring, for measurement of particle content in gas flow
 * Binary Alignment Map, the comprehensive raw data from genome sequencing (includes BAM files and the BAM file format)
 * Brewster angle microscope, for studying thin films on liquid surfaces.

Transport

 * BAM, station code for Bamford railway station, Bamford, Derbyshire, England
 * BAM, IATA and FAA LID codes for Battle Mountain Airport, Nevada, US
 * Baikal–Amur Mainline, a Siberian railway line
 * Bière–Apples–Morges railway, a railway company in Switzerland
 * Buque de Acción Marítima, offshore patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy

Other uses

 * BAM, Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark by ISO 4217 currency code