# PAM

Pam or PAM may refer to:

## Geography

* Pam, Iran, a village in Markazi Province
* Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM), United States
* Pam Islands, Papua New Guinea

## People and fictional characters

* Pam (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Pam (surname), a list of people
* Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), nicknamed Pam

## Arts and entertainment

* "Pam" (song), by Justin Quiles, Daddy Yankee and El Alfa
* Progressive Art Movement, a 1970s art movement in Adelaide, South Australia
* Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, United States
* Pam the Bird, a common graffiti tag in Melbourne, Victoria
* Performing Arts Museum, former name of the Australian Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne, Australia
* Pam, a name for the jack of clubs in the card game Lanterloo or Loo

## Military

* P.A.M. 1 & P.A.M. 2 (Pistola Ametrelladora Modelo), an Argentine submachine gun based on the US M3 "Grease Gun"
* Permanent Active Militia, predecessor of the Canadian Army
* Policy Analysis Market, an abandoned DARPA program
* Precision Attack Munition, an abandoned artillery missile project
* M150 Penetration Augmented Munition, an explosive device developed for the US Air Force
* Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida, US (IATA code PAM)

## Organizations
### Political parties

* Agrarian Party of Moldova, or Partidul Agrar din Moldova
* Authenticity and Modernity Party, or Parti Authenticité et Modernité, a political party in Morocco
* Party of the Vlachs of Macedonia, known in Aromanian as Partia Armãnjilor ditu Machidunie
* People's Action Movement, a political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis

### Other organizations

* PAM Health, formerly Post Acute Medical
* Pharmaceutical Association of Mauritius
* Pont-à-Mousson Company, French iron pipe manufacturer (established 1856)
* Service Union United (Finnish: Palvelualojen ammattiliitto), a trade union in Finland
* World Food Programme, also known as Programme alimentaire mondial, a United Nations organization

## Science and technology
### Biology and healthcare

* PAM (gene), human gene that encodes peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase
* Pancreatic acinar metaplasia, in gastroenterology
* Photoacoustic microscopy, a type of photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine
* Pneumatic artificial muscles, used in artificial limbs
* Point accepted mutation, a type of similarity matrix in computational biology
* Positive allosteric modulator, in pharmacology
* Pralidoxime, 2-PAM, or pyridine aldoximine methiodide; an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
* Pregnancy-associated malaria
* Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
* Protospacer adjacent motif, a genetic DNA recognition sequence

### Computing

* PAM graphics format, used by Netpbm
* PAM library, Parallel Augmented Map, a parallel library for ordered sets and maps using balanced binary trees
* Pluggable authentication modules (also known as X/Open Single Sign-on), a Unix authentication framework
** OpenPAM
** Linux PAM
* Privileged access management, a type of cybersecurity tool

### Other uses in science and technology

* Partitioning Around Medoids, in statistics, a data clustering algorithm
* Payload Assist Module, a small rocket engine, also referred to as a PAM-D
* Phone-as-Modem, sharing a phone's internet connection with other devices
* Polyacrylamide, a polymer
* Positive electrode Active Material, the surface layer of the positive electrode of a rechargeable battery
* Pulse-amplitude modulation, a technique for encoding information onto a series of signal pulses

## Storms

* Cyclone Pam (1974)
* Cyclone Pam (1997)
* Cyclone Pam, a tropical cyclone from the 2014–15 South Pacific cyclone season

## Other uses

* PAM (cooking oil), a brand of cooking spray, acronym of "Product of Arthur Meyerhoff"
* PAM Transport, a trucking company in Arkansas
* Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad, reporting mark PAM
* Kapampangan language (ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code pam), in the Philippines
* Pam language, a nearly extinct language of northern Cameroon