Jam is a type of fruit preserve. Jam or Jammed may also refer to:

Other common meanings

* A firearm malfunction * Block signals **

Radio jamming Radio jamming is the deliberate jamming, blocking or interference with wireless communications.https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-347A1.pdf Enforcement Advisory No. 2012-02 FCC Enforcement Advisory Cell Jammers, GPS Jammers, and Ot ...

** Radar jamming and deception ** Mobile phone jammer ** Echolocation jamming

Arts and entertainment

Music

* The Jam, an English band, late 1970s-early 1980s * The Jam (production team) * JAM Project, a Japanese animation music group * Judy and Mary, a Japanese band * ''Jam'' (album), by Little Angels * "Jam" (Michael Jackson song) * "Jam" (The Yellow Monkey song) * "

Jam (Turn It Up) "Jam (Turn It Up)" is a song by American television personality Kim Kardashian. The song features background vocals by singer-songwriter and record producer The-Dream. The song was released to iTunes on March 2, 2011, and half of the proceeds fro ...

", a song by Kim Kardashian * Jam, improvise music in a

jam session A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp over tunes, drones, songs, and chord progressions. To "jam" is to improvise music without exte ...

* ''Jammed'' (album), a 2004 studio album by The Church

Other

* ''Jam'' (film), a 2006 film by Craig E. Serling * ''Jam'' (novel), a 2010 novel by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw * ''Jam'' (TV series), UK * Jam Kuradoberi, a character in the ''Guilty Gear'' game series * The Jam (comics), by Bernie Mireault *

HBO Kids ''HBO Kids'' (formerly ''Jam'') is an American preschool/children's television morning block operated by Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO), a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. The block runs on HBO Family, HBO's sister station that targets children a ...

, formerly known as "Jam" from 2001 until 2016

Codes

* Jamaica (ISO country code: JAM) * Jamaican Patois (SO 639-3: jam), an English-based creole language

Computing

* JAM (disk compression), DOS disk compression software by JAM Software * JAM Message Base Format * Perforce Jam, a software building tool *

.jam JAM / STAPL ("Standard Test and Programming Language") is an Altera-developed standard for JTAG in-circuit programming of programmable logic devices which is defined by JEDEC standard JESD-71. STAPL defines a standard ''.jam'' file format whic ...

, a file type for JAM/STAPL, a Standard Test and Programming Language

Media

* BBC Jam, an online educational service *

Jam! Jam! was a Canadian website which covers entertainment news. It was part of the Canoe.com online portal, formerly owned and operated by Quebecor through its Sun Media division, and now owned by Postmedia Network. Jam! was the only media outlet ...

, a Canadian entertainment news site * Jam 88.3, branding of

DWJM DWJM (88.3 FM), broadcasting as Jam 88.3, is a radio station owned and operated by Raven Broadcasting Corporation, one of the partner stations of Tiger 22 Media. The station's studio is located at Unit 906-A Paragon Plaza, EDSA cor. Reliance S ...

, a radio station in Metro Manila * Jam 96.3, branding of WJAM, a radio station in Selma, Alabama * JamRadio, the student radio station of the University of Hull, England

Organisations

* JAM (trade union), a manufacturing trade union in Japan * JAM Creative Productions, a jingle company in Texas, US *

JAM Productions (company) Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines (which they termed "magazettes", for "magazine on diskette"). It was affiliated and partly owned by paper mag ...

, a short-lived computer game development company * Naughty Dog, formerly JAM Software Inc., first-party video game developer in California US * Jamaat al Muslimeen, an Islamist terrorist organization in Trinidad and Tobago *

Jaish al Mahdi The Peace Companies ( ar, سرايا السلام, or Saraya al Salam) are an Iraqi armed group linked to Iraq's Shia community. They are a 2014 revival of the Mahdi Army ( ''Jaysh al-Mahdī'') that was created by the Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada a ...

or Mahdi Army, an Iraqi military force created by Muqtada al-Sadr

People

* Jam (title), various rulers in India and Pakistan * Jam Handy (1886–1983), American swimmer and film producer

Places

Iran

Jam County Jam County ( fa, شهرستان جم) is located in Bushehr province, Iran. The capital of the county is Jam. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 37,999, in 8,412 households. Retrieved 6 November 2022 The following census in 2011 ...

, Bushehr Province ** Jam, Iran, a city **

Jam Rural District , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = Rural District , image_skyline = , image_alt = , image_caption = , image_flag = , flag_alt = , image_seal ...

Jam, Khuzestan Jam ( fa, جامع, also Romanized as Jāmʿ) is a village in Gheyzaniyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Ahvaz County Ahvaz County ( fa, شهرستان اهواز) is located in Khuzestan province, Iran. The capital of the county ...

, a village * Jam, Semnan, a village

Elsewhere

* Jamrud or Jam, Khyber Agency, Pakistan * '' Jám'' or Iam, Berlişte Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania *

Jam River Jam is a river in central India originating in the Betul District of Madhya Pradesh.It flows through several villages and towns during its short run, ultimately draining itself off in Kanhan River. This confluence is located at the border with M ...

, Madhya Pradesh, India ** Jam Dam * Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan

Sports

* Jam, a round in a

roller derby Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played by two teams of fifteen members. Roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, mostly in the United States. Game play consists of a series of short scrimmages (jam ...

game * Long Beach Jam (2003–2005) and Bakersfield Jam (2006–2016), later Northern Arizona Suns, a basketball team

Other uses

* Jam., an abbreviation for the Epistle of James * Jam or

Jamshid Jamshid () ( fa, جمشید, ''Jamshīd''; Middle- and New Persian: جم, ''Jam'') also known as ''Yima'' (Avestan: 𐬫𐬌𐬨𐬀 ''Yima''; Pashto/Dari: یما ''Yama'') is the fourth Shah of the mythological Pishdadian dynasty of Iran acco ...

, a mythological figure of Greater Iranian culture and tradition *

JAM Liner JAM Liner Inc. is a bus company that serves direct routes from Manila to provinces of Laguna, Batangas and Quezon. Dennise Trajano serves as JAM Liner's President and CEO as well as Philtranco Services Enterprises, Incorporated. Etymology ...

, a bus company in the Philippines *

Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. Joint Admission test for Masters (JAM) is a common admission test conducted every year for admission into Master of Science (M.Sc.) and other post-graduate science programs at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institute of Science (II ...

, an Indian admission test *

Junctional adhesion molecule A junctional adhesion molecule (JAM) is a protein that is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, and is expressed in a variety of different tissues, such as leukocytes, platelets, and epithelial and endothelial cells. They have been shown to ...

, a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''JAM2'' gene *

Jut Art Museum The Jut Art Museum (JAM; ) is an art museum in Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is managed and operated by the Jut Foundation for Arts and Architecture (JFAA). Mission Jut Land Development's 30th anniversary, and the Jut Foundation for Ar ...

, a museum in Taipei, Taiwan *

Time in Jamaica Jamaica Time (JAM) is the official time in Jamaica. It is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00).Timeanddate.co Retrieved January, 13, 2019 Jamaica has only one time zone and does not observe daylight saving time. During winter ...

, shortened to JAM, official time of Jamaica, UTC−5