Bam

Bam is commonly used as an onomatopoeia for a sound, mostly that of an impact or collision.

Bam or BAM may also refer to:

Buildings
  • Battle Mountain Airport (IATA airport code: BAM) in Battle Mountain, Nevada, United States
  • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, United States
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music, a cultural center in Brooklyn, New York
Companies and organizations
  • BAM! Entertainment, a dormant software company
  • Bell Atlantic Mobile, now Verizon Wireless
  • Books-A-Million, an American book retailer
  • Bromma Air Maintenance
  • Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
  • Koninklijke BAM Groep (Royal BAM Group) is a Dutch construction firm.
Computing
  • Bidirectional Associative Memory, a type of neural network
  • Binary Angular Measurement or Binary Angular Measurement System (BAMS)
  • Block allocation map
  • Burst Activity Management, a CAI Networks product feature
  • Business activity monitoring, real-time monitoring of business processes
  • BOINC Account Manager (BAM!), part of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Entertainment and media
  • BAM! Volume 1, an album by Sister Hazel
  • BAM (magazine), a defunct San Francisco music magazine
  • Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone (BaM), characters on the soap opera All My Children
  • Bonnier Amigo Music Group
Geography
  • Bam County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
    • Bam, Iran, a city
    • 2003 Bam earthquake
  • Bam, Esfarayen, a village in Esfarayen County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Bam, Jajrom, a village in Jajrom County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Bam Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Iran
  • Bam (neighborhood), Tirana, Albania
  • Bam Province, Burkina Faso
ISO codes
  • Bambara language ISO 639 code
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the ISO 4217 currency code for the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
People
  • Bam Bam Bigelow, former American professional wrestler
  • Bam Childress, a professional American football player
  • Bam Margera, professional skateboarder and television personality
  • Peter Poulton, a UK radio presenter who is also known as Bam Bam
Rail transport
  • Baikal Amur Mainline, a Siberian railway line
  • Bamford railway station, coded BAM
  • Bière–Apples–Morges Railway, a railway company in Switzerland
Other
  • Baluchi Autonomist Movement a Baluchi ethnic nationalist group.
  • BAM (material) a ceramic alloy, Aluminium magnesium boride
  • BAM Racing, a NASCAR racing team
  • Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah
  • Board-a-match, a form of scoring at duplicate bridge
  • Buque de Acción Marítima, offshore patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy
  • Populus balsamifera, the balsam poplar