Spam most often refers to:
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Spam (food)
Spam (stylized in all-caps) is a brand of lunch meat ( processed canned pork and ham) made by Hormel Foods Corporation, an American multinational food processing company. It was introduced in the United States in 1937 and gained populari ...
, a consumer brand product of canned processed pork of the Hormel Foods Corporation
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Spamming
Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or si ...
, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
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Email spam
Email spam, also referred to as junk email, spam mail, or simply spam, refers to unsolicited messages sent in bulk via email. The term originates from a Spam (Monty Python), Monty Python sketch, where the name of a canned meat product, "Spam (food ...
, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
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Messaging spam Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS, or private messages within websites.
Instant messaging applications
Instant messaging systems, such as Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter D ...
, spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS or private messages within websites
Art and entertainment
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Spam (gaming)
Since the origin of video games in the early 1970s, the video game industry, the gamer, players, and video game culture, surrounding culture have spawned a wide range of technical and slang terms.
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, the repetition of an in-game action
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"Spam" (Monty Python sketch), a comedy sketch
* "Spam", a song on the album ''
It Means Everything
''It Means Everything'' is the debut studio album of American rock band Save Ferris; it was released on September 9, 1997, through Epic Records and Starpool Records. Save Ferris formed in 1995 after its members appeared in other bands. Vocalis ...
'' (1997), by Save Ferris
* "Spam", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the album ''
UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff
''UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff'' is the sixth studio album and soundtrack album by the American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic, released on July 18, 1989. The album is the final of Yankovic's to be produced by ...
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Spam Museum
The Spam Museum is an admission-free museum in Austin, Minnesota, dedicated to Spam, a brand of canned precooked meat products made by Hormel Foods Corporation. The museum tells the history of the Hormel company, the origin of Spam, and its p ...
, a museum in Austin, Minnesota, US dedicated to the canned pork meat product
Other uses
* Smooth-particle applied mechanics, the use of
smoothed-particle hydrodynamics
Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a computational method used for simulating the mechanics of continuum media, such as solid mechanics and Fluid dynamics, fluid flows. It was developed by robert A. Gingold, Gingold and Joseph J. Monaghan ...
computation to study impact fractures in solids
* SPAM, a
candidate phylum of bacteria
See also
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