# Bam

Bam or BAM may refer to:

## Places
### Extraterrestrial

* Bam (crater), a crater on Mars
* 2031 BAM, an asteroid

### Terrestrial

* Bam (neighborhood), Tirana, Albania
* Bam, Amur Oblast, a rural locality in Amur Oblast, Russia
* Bam, Esfarayen, a village in Esfarayen County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
* Bam, Iran, a city in Kerman Province, Iran
* Arg-e Bam, an ancient citadel destroyed by an earthquake in 2003 in Kerman Province, Iran
* Bam, Jajrom, a village in Jajrom County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
* Bam County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
* Bam Province, Burkina Faso
* Bam Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Iran
* Lake Bam, Burkina Faso
* Bam Island (Papua New Guinea), in the Schouten Islands

## People

* Bam (nickname)
* Bam (surname)

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Music

* BAM, an alternative name for the British duo Bars and Melody
* BAM! Volume 1, an album by Sister Hazel
* Bam (song), a song by Jay-Z featuring Damian Marley
* "Bam", a song by Atmosphere from the album You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
* "BAM", a song by Miranda Cosgrove from the album Sparks Fly

### Other arts, entertainment, and media

* BAM (film), a 2015 animated short by Howie Shia
* BAM (magazine) (Bay Area Music), a defunct San Francisco music magazine (1976–1999)
* BAM, a form of scoring in duplicate contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms#board-a-match
* Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone (BaM), characters on the soap opera All My Children
* Big Ass Monster, used to describe tougher than normal computer-controlled video game opponents, notably in TERA
* Black Arts Movement in America, 1970s
* Black American music, an umbrella term for music developed by African-Americans, especially jazz
* MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), a streaming service of Major League Baseball
* Radio Bam, a Sirius radio station from 2004 to 2013

## Brands and enterprises

* BAM! Entertainment, a dormant video game publisher founded in 1999
* Banca Agricola Mantovana, a defunct Italian bank
* Books-A-Million or BAM!, an American book retailer
* Bromma Air Maintenance, a Swedish aerospace services company
* Brookfield Asset Management, a Canadian financial services company
* Royal BAM Group, a Dutch-based construction corporation
* BAM Nuttall, a British construction subsidiary of Royal BAM Group

## Languages

* bam, ISO 639-2 and 630-3 code for the Bambara language, spoken in Mali
* Bam or Biem language, spoken in New Guinea
* Bam, a dialect of the Wantoat language, spoken in Papua New Guinea

## Organizations
### Arts and entertainment

* Baluchi Autonomist Movement, a Baluchi ethnic nationalist group
* BAM Racing, a NASCAR racing team
* Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley, California, United States
* Boise Art Museum in Boise, Idaho
* Brooklyn Academy of Music, a performing arts venue in New York City
* Brotherhood of Auckland Magicians (BAM), a New Zealand-based non-for-profit organisation and magic club

### Other organizations

* Bishop Abraham Memorial College, Thurithicadu, Kerala, India
* Born Again Movement, or Zhongshengpai, a Chinese Christian religious movement
* Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin

### Sports federation

* Badminton Association of Malaysia, governing body of badminton in Malaysia

## Science and technology
### Biology

* Populus balsamifera, also known as Bam, the balsam poplar

### Computing

* Bidirectional associative memory, a type of neural network
* Block availability map, a computer file system of Commodore DOS
* Business activity monitoring, real-time monitoring of business processes
* BOINC Account Manager (BAM!) for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing software
* Binary angular measurement, a digital representation of angles used by computers

### Medicine

* Bile acid malabsorption, a gut-related problem
* Bosma arhinia microphthalmia, an extremely rare genetic disorder in which both arhinia and microphthalmia are present
* Bamlanivimab, an experimental antibody treatment for COVID-19

### Other science and technology

* BAM, a ceramic alloy, aluminium magnesium boride
* Beta attenuation monitoring, for measurement of particle content in gas flow
* Binary Alignment Map, the comprehensive raw data from genome sequencing (includes BAM files and the BAM file format)
* Brewster angle microscope, for studying thin films on liquid surfaces.

## Transport

* BAM, station code for Bamford railway station, Bamford, Derbyshire, England
* BAM, IATA and FAA LID codes for Battle Mountain Airport, Nevada, US
* Baikal–Amur Mainline, a Siberian railway line
* Bière–Apples–Morges railway, a railway company in Switzerland
* Buque de Acción Marítima, offshore patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy

## Other uses

* BAM, Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark by ISO 4217 currency code