# Jam (disambiguation)

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 entertainment
### Music

* The Jam, an English band, late 1970s-early 1980s
* 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)", a song by Kim Kardashian
* Jam, improvise music in a jam session
* "Jjam", a song by Stray Kids from Ate
* 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, formerly known as "Jam" from 2001 until 2016
* Jam Films, a collection of short films

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

## Media

* BBC Jam, an online educational service
* Jam!, a Canadian entertainment news site
* Jam 88.3, branding of DWJM, 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), 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 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, Bushehr Province
** Jam, Iran, a city
** Jam Rural District
* Jam, Khuzestan, a village
* Jam, Semnan, a village

### Elsewhere

* Jamrud or Jam, Khyber Agency, Pakistan
* Jám or Iam, Berlişte Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania
* Jam River, Madhya Pradesh, India
** Jam Dam
* Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan

## Sports

* Jam, a round in a roller derby 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, a mythological figure of Greater Iranian culture and tradition
* JAM Liner, a bus company in the Philippines
* Joint Admission Test for M.Sc., an Indian admission test
* Junctional adhesion molecule, a protein that in humans is encoded by the JAM2 gene
* Jut Art Museum, a museum in Taipei, Taiwan
* Time in Jamaica, shortened to JAM, official time of Jamaica, UTC−5