Charm or Charms may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

The Charms The Charms are an American garage rock band from Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, who were formed in 2002. Following 8 straight years of releasing records and touring the band went on a hiatus and returned for a few one off shows befo ...

, an American garage rock band *

Otis Williams and the Charms Otis Williams and the Charms were an American doo-wop vocal group in the 1950s, who were originally billed as The Charms. Williams is not related to Otis Williams of The Temptations. Career Otis Williams (born June 2, 1936, in Cincinnati, Ohio ...

, an American doo-wop group * ''The Charm'' (Bubba Sparxxx album), 2006 * ''Charm'' (Danny! album), 2006 * ''Charm'' (Clairo album), 2024 * "Charm" (Rema song), 2023 * "Charm", a song by Wild Colonials from the 1996 album '' This Can't Be Life'' * "Charm", a song by Tony Banks from the 1983 album '' The Fugitive'' * "Charm", a 1981 song by Positive Noise * "Charm", a 1986 song by

Virginia Astley Virginia Astley (born 26 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter most active during the 1980s and 1990s. Her songwriting career started in 1980, with her classical training significantly influencing her music. Although most popular in As ...

* "Charms" (Bobby Vee song), 1963 * "Charms" (The Philosopher Kings song), 1995 * ''Charm'' (TV series), a Burmese TV series

Magic and superstition

* Charm, or

incantation An incantation, spell, charm, enchantment, or bewitchery is a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects. The formula can be spoken, sung, or chanted. An incantation can also be performed during ceremonial ri ...

, a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect * Charm, a lucky symbol * Charm, a jewelled ornament on a

charm bracelet A charm bracelet is a type of bracelet which carries personal jewelled ornaments or "charms", such as decorative pendants or wikt:trinket, trinkets. The decorative charms usually carry personal or sentimental attachment by the owner. History Th ...

Science and technology

Quantum physics

Charm quark The charm quark, charmed quark, or c quark is an elementary particle found in composite subatomic particles called hadrons such as the J/psi meson and the charmed baryons created in particle accelerator collisions. Several bosons, including th ...

, an elementary particle *

Charm (quantum number) Charm (symbol ''C'') is a flavour quantum number representing the difference between the number of charm quarks () and charm antiquarks () that are present in a particle: :C = n_\text - n_\ By convention, the sign of flavour quantum numbers agr ...

, the difference between the number of charm quarks and charm antiquarks in a particle

Computing

Charm (programming language) Charm is a computer programming language devised in the early 1990s with similarities to the RTL/2, Pascal and C languages in addition to containing some unique features of its own. The Charm language is defined by a context-free grammar amenab ...

, devised in the 1990s *

Charm++ Charm++ is a parallel object-oriented programming paradigm based on C++ and developed in the Parallel Programming Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Charm++ is designed with the goal of enhancing programmer productivi ...

, a parallel programming language based on C++ * Charms, part of the

Windows shell The Windows shell is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop, the taskbar, the Start menu, the task switcher and the AutoPlay feature. On some versions of ...

user interface

Devices

* BlackBerry Charm, a smartphone *

Motorola Charm The Motorola Charm is a smartphone manufactured by Motorola. It was released exclusively to U.S. carrier T-Mobile, and Canadian carrier Telus. The Motorola Charm is the second Motorola Android phone to feature the updated Motoblur UI for Android ...

, a smartphone

People

* Daniel Charms, a pseudonym of Russian poet, writer and dramatist Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) * Charm Chiteule (1953–2008), Zambian boxer *

Charm La'Donna Charmaine Jordan (born May 14, 1988), known professionally as Charm La'Donna, is an American dancer and choreographer. She is known for her work with recording artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía, Dua Lipa and Selena Gomez. Early life a ...

(born 1988), American dancer *

Charm Tong Charm Tong (born in 1981, Shan State, Burma) is a Shan teacher and human rights activist. She is head of the School for Shan State Nationalities Youth in Northern Thailand. Charm Tong is also one of the founders of Shan Women's Action Network, wh ...

(born 1981), Burmese teacher and human rights activist

Other uses

Charm, Ohio Charm is an unincorporated community in northwestern Clark Township, Holmes County, Ohio, United States. It has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message ...

, an unincorporated community in the US * Baltimore Charm, an American women's football team *

Miss Charm Miss Charm is an international beauty pageant based in Vietnam with the mission of promoting culture, tourism and educational activities. The current Miss Charm is Rashmita Rasindran from Malaysia, who was crowned on 21 December 2024 at Nguyen ...

, an annual beauty pageant *

Royal Ordnance L30 The L30A1, officially designated Gun, 120 mm, Tank L30, is a British-designed 120 mm rifling, rifled tank gun, installed in the turrets of Challenger 2 main battle tanks. It is an improved production model of the Royal Ordnance L11 s ...

, conceive by the Challenger armament (CHARM) project * An animal collective name for

finch The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches generally have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and nuts and often have colourful plumage. They occupy a great range of habitats where the ...

es * Charm (finance), a second-order derivative in mathematical finance * Charms Candy Company, manufacturer of Charms candy * Charms, a brand of cigarette manufactured by

VST Industries VST Industries Ltd is an Indian Public company, publicly-listed company which manufactures and distributes cigarettes. The company is headquartered in Hyderabad. VST Industries started off as the Vazir Sultan Tobacco Company, and became an ...