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 Pam the Bird, a common graffiti tag in Melbourne, Victoria 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 (), 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)
Organizations Political parties Agrarian Party of Moldova, or Authenticity and Modernity Party, or Parti Authenticité et Modernité, a political party in Morocco Party of the Vlachs of Macedonia, known in Aromanian as People's Action Movement, a political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Other organizations PAM Health, formerly Post Acute Medical Pont-à-Mousson Company, French iron pipe manufacturer (established 1856) Service Union United (), a trade union in Finland World Food Programme, also known as Programme alimentaire mondial, a United Nations organization
Science and technology 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" Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad, reporting mark PAM Kapampangan language (ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code pam), in the Philippines Pam language, a nearly extinct language of northern Cameroon
See also
PAMS (disambiguation)