PAM

Pam or PAM may refer to:

Geography

 * Pam, Iran, a village in Markazi Province
 * Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM), United States
 * Pam Islands, Papua New Guinea

People and fictional characters

 * Pam (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
 * Pam (surname), a list of people
 * Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), nicknamed Pam

Arts and entertainment

 * "Pam" (song), by Justin Quiles, Daddy Yankee and El Alfa
 * Progressive Art Movement, a 1970s art movement in Adelaide, South Australia
 * Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, United States
 * Performing Arts Museum, former name of the Australian Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne, Australia
 * Pam, a name for the jack of clubs in the card game Lanterloo or Loo

Military

 * P.A.M. 1 & P.A.M. 2 (Pistola Ametrelladora Modelo), an Argentine submachine gun based on the US M3 "Grease Gun"
 * Permanent Active Militia, predecessor of the Canadian Army
 * Policy Analysis Market, an abandoned DARPA program
 * Precision Attack Munition, an abandoned artillery missile project
 * M150 Penetration Augmented Munition, an explosive device developed for the US Air Force
 * Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida, US (IATA code PAM)

Political parties

 * Agrarian Party of Moldova, or Partidul Agrar din Moldova
 * Authenticity and Modernity Party, or Parti Authenticité et Modernité, a political party in Morocco
 * Party of the Vlachs of Macedonia, known in Aromanian as Partia Armãnjilor ditu Machidunie
 * People's Action Movement, a political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Other organizations

 * Pharmaceutical Association of Mauritius
 * Service Union United (Palvelualojen ammattiliitto), a trade union in Finland
 * World Food Programme, also known as Programme alimentaire mondial, a United Nations organization

Biology and healthcare

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

Computing

 * PAM graphics format, used by Netpbm
 * PAM library, Parallel Augmented Map, a parallel library for ordered sets and maps using balanced binary trees
 * Pluggable authentication modules (also known as X/Open Single Sign-on), a Unix authentication framework
 * OpenPAM
 * Linux PAM
 * Privileged access management, a type of cybersecurity tool

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
 * Positive electrode Active Material, the surface layer of the positive electrode of a rechargeable battery
 * Pulse-amplitude modulation, a technique for encoding information onto a series of signal pulses

Storms

 * Cyclone Pam (1974)
 * Cyclone Pam (1997)
 * Cyclone Pam, a tropical cyclone from the 2014–15 South Pacific cyclone season

Other uses

 * PAM (cooking oil), a brand of cooking spray, acronym of "Product of Arthur Meyerhoff"
 * PAM Transport, a trucking company in Arkansas
 * Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad, reporting mark PAM
 * Kapampangan language (ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code pam)
 * Pam language, a nearly extinct language of northern Cameroon