Bam
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Bam is commonly used as an onomatopoeia for a sound, mostly that of an impact or collision
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Bam or BAM may also refer to:
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Collision
A collision is an isolated event which two or more moving bodies exert forces on each other for a relatively short time.Although the most common colloquial use of the word "collision" refers to accidents in which two or more objects collide, the scientific use of the word "collision" implies...
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Bam or BAM may also refer to:
Places:
- Bam, IranBam, IranBam is a city in and the capital of Bam County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 73,823, in 19,572 families.The modern Iranian city of Bam surrounds the Bam citadel. Before the 2003 earthquake the official population count of the city was roughly 43,000. There are...
, a city - Bam CountyBam CountyBam County is a county in Kerman Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Bam. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 277,835, in 67,639 families; excluding those portions, the population was 118,037 in 31,124 families...
, an administrative subdivision of Iran - Bam Province, Burkina Faso
- Bam (neighborhood)Bam (neighborhood)Bam is a neighbourhood of Tirana, Albania. It is located west of the central boulevard....
, Tirana, Albania
Events:
- 2003 Bam earthquake2003 Bam earthquakeThe 2003 Bam earthquake was a major earthquake that struck Bam and the surroundingKerman province of southeastern Iran at 1:56 AM UTC on Friday, December 26, 2003. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude of 6.6; estimated by the United...
People:
- Bam Bam Bigelow, former American professional wrestler
- Peter Poulton, a UK radio presenter who is also known as Bam Bam
- Bam MargeraBam MargeraBrandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, television and radio personality, actor and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew...
, professional skateboarder and television personality - Bam Childress, a professional American football player
Buildings:
- Battle Mountain AirportBattle Mountain AirportBattle Mountain Airport , also known as Lander County Airport, is a public-use airport located 3 miles southeast of the central business district of Battle Mountain, Nevada, United States...
(IATA airport code: BAM) in Battle Mountain, Nevada, United States - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveThe Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is associated with the University of California at Berkeley. The director is Lawrence Rinder who was appointed in 2008.-Collection:...
in Berkeley, California, United States - Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, United States, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance....
, a cultural center in Brooklyn, New York
Companies and organizations:
- Bière–Apples–Morges Railway, an Railway companie in Switzerland, (frz.FranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
): Chemin de fer Bière–Apples–Morges - Books-A-MillionBooks-A-MillionBooks-A-Million, Inc., also known as BAM!, is a company that owns the second largest U.S. bookstore chain and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The company operates over 200 stores in the South, Midwest, Northeast...
, an American book retailer - BAM! EntertainmentBAM! EntertainmentBAM! Entertainment is a dormant video game publisher that published such titles as Carmen Sandiego: The Secret of the Stolen Drums, Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo, and various video game console adaptations of Cartoon Network programs. Threatened as early as 2002, NASDAQ eventually delisted their...
, a dormant software company - Bell Atlantic Mobile, now Verizon WirelessVerizon WirelessCellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is one of the largest mobile network operators in the United States. The network has 107.7 million subscribers as of 2011, making it the largest wireless service provider in America....
- Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfungBundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfungThe Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing or Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung is a German material research institute.-History:...
, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany - Koninklijke BAM GroepKoninklijke BAM GroepKoninklijke BAM Groep is a major European construction-services business with headquarters in Bunnik, Netherlands.-History:The company was founded by Adam Van der Wal as a joiner's shop in 1869...
(Royal BAM Group) is a Dutch construction firm. - Bromma Air MaintenanceBromma Air MaintenanceBromma Air Maintenance AB , is a Swedish company specialized in maintenance on fixed-wing aircraft. Certified in accordance with EASA part-145. BAM headquarter is located at Stockholm-Bromma Airport in Stockholm, Sweden...
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- Entertainment
- BAM! Volume 1BAM! Volume 1BAM! Volume 1 is Sister Hazel's first compilation album. It was released on June 5, 2007. It is a "hybrid" album, combining tracks from the Absolutely sessions, live demos, and unheard rare tracks....
, an album by Sister Hazel - BAM (magazine)BAM (magazine)BAM , was a free bi-weekly music magazine founded and published by Dennis Erokan in the San Francisco Bay Area starting in January 1976 and continuing on for 23 years until 1999...
, a defunct San Francisco music magazine - Bianca Montgomery and Maggie StoneBianca Montgomery and Maggie StoneBianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone are fictional characters and a supercouple from the American daytime drama All My Children. Bianca was portrayed by Eden Riegel, and Maggie was portrayed by Elizabeth Hendrickson....
(BaM), characters on the soap opera All My Children
- BAM! Volume 1
- ISO codes:
- Bambara languageBambara languageBambara, more correctly known as Bamanankan , its designation in the language itself , is a language spoken in Mali by as many as six million people...
ISO 639 code - Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible markBosnia and Herzegovina convertible markThe Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark is the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is divided into 100 fenings...
, the ISO 4217 currency code for the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bambara language
- Rail transport:
- Baikal Amur Mainline, a Siberian railway line
- Bamford railway stationBamford railway stationBamford railway station serves the village of Bamford in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England and is owned by Northern Rail.-History:Bamford station was built by the Dore and Chinley Railway, a company which was absorbed by the Midland Railway prior to opening...
, coded BAM.
- Science and technology:
- BAM (material)BAM (material)BAM is a ceramic alloy created from an alloy of boron, aluminium and magnesium and titanium boride . It is one of the hardest known materials, after diamond and cubic boron nitride...
a ceramic alloy having exceptional hardness and coefficient of friction of .02 (compared to .05 for teflon). - Aluminium magnesium borideAluminium magnesium borideAluminium magnesium boride , also known as BAM, is a chemical compound of aluminium, magnesium and boron, and is a ceramic alloy that is highly resistive to wear with a low coefficient of sliding friction...
(AlMgB14) - a ceramic alloy similar to the BAM (material)BAM (material)BAM is a ceramic alloy created from an alloy of boron, aluminium and magnesium and titanium boride . It is one of the hardest known materials, after diamond and cubic boron nitride...
- BAM (material)
- Sport:
- BAM RacingBAM RacingBAM Racing is a NASCAR racing team based in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, owned by Beth Ann and Tony Morgenthau. The team began in the ARCA RE/MAX Series in 2000, moving to NASCAR in 2001 to 2008 before sitting out 2009 due to the economy...
, a NASCAR racing team
- BAM Racing
- Other:
- Baluchi Autonomist MovementBaluchi Autonomist MovementThe Baluchi Autonomist Movement was an ethnic Baluchi guerrilla movement in Iranian Balochistan led by Mowlawi Abdul Aziz Mollazadeh in the 1980s. The movement was supported by the Iraqi government. The BAM's main demands were limited autonomy and economic concessions for Iranian Baluchis...
a Baluchi ethnic nationalist group. - Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah
- Bonnier Amigo Music GroupBonnier Amigo Music GroupCosmos Music Group is an independent record company based in Stockholm, Sweden.Bonnier Amigo Music Group was formed in 2001 when record company and distributor Amigo Musik merged with record company Bonnier Music. BAMG claims to be the biggest independent record company in Scandinavia with a...
- Board-a-match, a form of scoring at duplicate bridgeDuplicate bridgeDuplicate bridge is the most widely used variation of contract bridge in club and tournament play. It is called duplicate because the same bridge deal is played at each table and scoring is based on relative performance...
- Business activity monitoringBusiness activity monitoringBusiness activity monitoring is software that aids in monitoring of business activities, as those activities are implemented in computer systems....
, real-time monitoring of business processes
- Baluchi Autonomist Movement
Computers:
- Bidirectional Associative MemoryBidirectional Associative MemoryBidirectional associative memory is a type of recurrent neural network. BAM was introduced by Bart Kosko in 1988. There are two types of associative memory, auto-associative and hetero-associative. BAM is hetero-associative, meaning given a pattern it can return another pattern which is...
, a type of neural network - Binary Angular Measurement or Binary Angular Measurement System (BAMS)
- Block allocation mapBlock allocation mapIn computer file systems, a block allocation map is a data structure used to track disk blocks that are considered "allocated" or "free for writing."...
- Buque de Acción MarítimaBuque de Acción MarítimaThe BAM ships are new modular Offshore Patrol Vessels of the Spanish Navy adapted to different purposes from a common base, manufactured by Navantia. The BAMs combine high performance with mission versatility, a high commonality with other ships operated by the Spanish navy...
, offshore patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy - Burst Activity Management, a CAI NetworksCAI NetworksCAI Networks, Inc. is a privately held company providing network products for e-commerce, government, and IT industries. It was established in 1998 and since January 2000 is based in Santa Ana, California. It has engineering offices in the USA, UK, Taiwan, and China. It has thousands customers in...
product feature - Business Activity MonitoringBusiness activity monitoringBusiness activity monitoring is software that aids in monitoring of business activities, as those activities are implemented in computer systems....
See also
- Bang (disambiguation)
- Boom (disambiguation)
- Emeril LagasseEmeril Lagasse'Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. A regional James Beard Award winner, he is perhaps most notable for his Food Network shows Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril as well as catchphrases such as “Kick it up a notch!” and...
, known for his catchphrase "BAM!"