Jam Jam is a type of fruit preserve. Jam or Jammed may also refer to: Other common meanings * A firearm malfunction * Block signals ** Radio jamming ** Radar jamming and deception ** Mobile phone jammer ** Echolocation jamming Arts and entertai ...

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

Other common meanings

* A

firearm malfunction A firearm malfunction is the failure of a firearm to operate as intended for causes other than user error. Malfunctions range from temporary and relatively safe situations, such as a casing that did not eject, to potentially dangerous occurrences ...

* 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 A mobile phone jammer or blocker is a device which deliberately transmits signals on the same radio frequencies as mobile phones, disrupting the communication between the phone and the cell-phone base station, effectively disabling mobile phones wi ...

Echolocation jamming Echolocation (or sonar) systems of animals, like human radar systems, are susceptible to interference known as echolocation jamming or sonar jamming. Jamming occurs when non-target sounds interfere with target echoes. Jamming can be purposeful or ...

Arts and entertainment

Music

The Jam The Jam were an English mod revival/ punk rock band formed in 1972 at Sheerwater Secondary School in Woking, Surrey. They released 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 198 ...

, an English band, late 1970s-early 1980s * The Jam (production team) * JAM Project, a Japanese animation music group *

Judy and Mary Judy and Mary (often stylized as JUDY AND MARY) was a Japanese rock band formed in 1991 in Japan by bassist Yoshihito Onda and vocalist Yuki Isoya, Yuki, with drummer Kohta Igarashi and guitarist Taiji Fujimoto completing the lineup in 1992. Guit ...

, a Japanese band * ''Jam'' (album), by Little Angels * "Jam" (Michael Jackson song) * "Jam" (The Yellow Monkey song) * " Jam (Turn It Up)", 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) The Jam, formally known as the Jammer, is a fictional costumed hero, created by writer-artist Bernie Mireault, who originally appeared in Canadian comic books published by Matrix Graphics Series. The Jammer made his first appearance in ''New Triu ...

, 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 Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

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

Computing

JAM (disk compression) A disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility, which compresses only specified files—and which requires the user to designate th ...

, DOS disk compression software by JAM Software *

JAM Message Base Format The JAM Message Base Format was one of the most popular file formats of message bases on DOS-based BBSes in the 1990s. JAM stands for "Joaquim-Andrew-Mats" after the original authors of the API, Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, an ...

Perforce Jam Perforce Jam was an open-source build system developed by Christopher Seiwald of Perforce Software. It was used as a replacement for make. Its primary feature was its ability to express build patterns in an imperative language which supported st ...

, 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 BBC Jam (formerly known as BBC Digital Curriculum) was an online educational service operated by the BBC from January 2006 to 20 March 2007. The service was available free across the United Kingdom offering multi-media educational resources. Ja ...

, 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 WJAM (1340 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Selma, Alabama, United States. Originally launched in 1946, the station is currently owned by Scott Communications, Inc., and the WJAM broadcast license is held by Scott Communications, Inc. P ...

, 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 Jam is a type of fruit preserve. Jam or Jammed may also refer to: Other common meanings * A firearm malfunction * Block signals ...

, Bushehr Province **

Jam, Iran Jam ( fa, جم; also romanized as Jamm; also known as Jām-e Jam) is a city in and capital of Jam County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 10,809, in 2,734 families. It has an airport close to the city and has rece ...

, 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, a village *

Jam, Semnan Jam ( fa, جام, also Romanized as Jām; also known as Djam) is a village in Howmeh Rural District (Semnan County), Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District (Semnan County), Central District of Semnan County, Semnan Province, Iran. At the 20 ...

, 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 Jam Dam, is an earthfill dam on Jam river near Katol, Nagpur district in state of Maharashtra in India. Specifications The height of the dam above lowest foundation is while the length is . The volume content is and gross storage capacity ...

Minaret of Jam The Minaret of Jam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western Afghanistan. It is located in a remote and nearly inaccessible region of the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, next to the Hari River. The or high minaret was built around 1190 entire ...

, 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 The Motor City Cruise are an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in Detroit, Michigan, and are affiliated with the Detroit Pistons. The Cruise play their home games at Wayne State Fieldhouse. The franchise began play a ...

, a basketball team

Other uses

* Jam., an abbreviation for the

Epistle of James The Epistle of James). is a general epistle and one of the 21 epistles ( didactic letters) in the New Testament. James 1:1 identifies the author as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" who is writing to "the twelve tribes ...

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