Helm may refer to:

Common meanings

* a ship's steering mechanism; see

tiller A tiller or till is a lever used to steer a vehicle. The mechanism is primarily used in watercraft, where it is attached to an outboard motor, rudder post or stock to provide leverage in the form of torque for the helmsman to turn the rudder. ...

and ship's wheel * another term for

helmsman A helmsman or helm (sometimes driver) is a person who steering, steers a ship, sailboat, submarine, other type of maritime vessel, or spacecraft. The rank and seniority of the helmsman may vary: on small vessels such as fishing vessels and yacht ...

* an archaic term for a helmet, used as armor

Arts and entertainment

* Matt Helm, a character created by Donald Hamilton *

Helm (Forgotten Realms) ''Forgotten Realms'' is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') Role-playing game, fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwo ...

, a god in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' * Helm, a character from the 2000AD comic strip '' Rogue Trooper'' * ''Helm'' (album), released by Lebanese singer Carole Samaha * ''Helm'', a novel by

Steven Gould Steven Charles Gould (born February 7, 1955) is an American science fiction writer and teacher. He has written ten novels. He is best known for his 1992 novel ''Jumper'', which was adapted into a film released in 2008. Biography Steven Charles ...

HELM

* Hierarchical editing language for macromolecules, a method of describing complex biological molecules *

Holomorphic embedding load flow method The Holomorphic Embedding Load-flow Method (HELM)HELM is a trademark of Gridquant Inc. is a solution method for the power-flow equations of electrical power systems. Its main features are that it is direct (that is, non-iterative) and that it mathe ...

, a mathematical technique for solving AC power flow

People

Helm (given name) Helm is a masculine given name which may refer to: *Helm Glöckler (1909–1993), German racing driver *Helm Roos (1930–1992), South African Army officer *Helm Spencer (1891–1974), English cricketer *Helm Stierlin (born 1926), German psychiat ...

* Helm (surname)

Places

United States

Helm, California Helm is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. It is located south of Kerman, at an elevation of 187 feet (57 m). The first post office was opened in Helm in 1913. The ZIP code is 93627. The city was name after William H ...

, an unincorporated community * Helm, Kentucky, an unincorporated community *

Helm, Missouri Helm is an unincorporated community in northeast Pulaski County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located adjacent to Missouri Route N, just south of Missouri Route 133 Route 133 is a highway in central Missouri. Its northern te ...

, an unincorporated community * Helm Canal, California, an aqueduct

Antarctica

Helm Glacier Helm Glacier () is a glacier, long, flowing north to enter Lowery Glacier just west of the Fazekas Hills, in the Queen Elizabeth Range of Antarctica. It was named for Arthur S. Helm, former Secretary of the Ross Sea Committee, by the New Zealan ...

Helm Peak Relay Hills () is a group of low, ice-covered hills, mainly conical in shape, between Mount Edgell and Kinnear Mountains in western Antarctic Peninsula. First roughly surveyed from the ground by British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1936–37. ...

Helm Point Helm Point () is a point which marks the southeast tip of Honeycomb Ridge on the west side of Moubray Bay, Antarctica. It consists of brown granodiorite and supports a relatively luxuriant vegetation of lichens and mosses, along with nests of snow p ...

Elsewhere

Helm Crag Helm Crag is a fell in the English Lake District situated in the Central Fells to the north of Grasmere. Despite its low height it sits prominently at the end of a ridge, easily seen from the village. This, combined with the distinctive summi ...

, Cumbria, England *

Helm (mountain) The Helm ( it, Monte Elmo; german: Helm) is a mountain in the Puster Valley in South Tyrol, Italy. References * Peter Holl: ''Alpenvereinsführer Karnischer Hauptkamm'', Bergverlag Rudolf Rother Bergverlag Rother is a German publisher with ...

, South Tyrol, Italy

Other uses

* Helm Bank, a Colombian commercial bank purchased and rebranded by Itaú Unibanco * , a multinational chemicals marketing and distribution company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany *

Helm Wind The Helm Wind is a named wind in Cumbria, England, a strong north-easterly wind which blows down the south-west slope of the Cross Fell escarpment. It is the only named wind in the British Isles, although many other mountain regions in Britain ex ...

, which blows in Cumbria, England * Helmet (heraldry) or helm * Quarter florin, a medieval English coin known as a helm * , a United States Navy destroyer *

Helm (software) The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a Linux Foundation project that was founded in 2015 to help advance container technology and align the tech industry around its evolution. It was announced alongside Kubernetes 1.0, an open sour ...

, an open source Linux package manager