Jam is a type of fruit preserve. Jam or Jammed may also refer to:

Other common meanings

* A

firearm malfunction A firearm malfunction is the failure of a firearm to operate as intended for causes other than user error. Malfunctions range from temporary and relatively safe situations, such as a casing that did not eject, to potentially dangerous occurrences ...

* Block signals ** Radio jamming **

Radar jamming and deception Radar jamming and deception is a form of electronic countermeasures that intentionally sends out radio frequency signals to interfere with the operation of radar by saturating its receiver with noise or false information. Concepts that blanket the ...

** Mobile phone jammer ** Echolocation jamming

Arts and entertainment

Music

The Jam The Jam were an English mod revival/ punk rock band formed in 1972 at Sheerwater Secondary School in Woking, Surrey. They released 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1 ...

, an English band, late 1970s-early 1980s * The Jam (production team) *

JAM Project JAM Project ("JAM" standing for "Japan Animationsong Makers") are a Japanese anison band founded on July 19, 2000 by anison singer Ichirou Mizuki. The band is composed of many vocal artists well known in the anime music industry. Aside from the m ...

, a Japanese animation music group *

Judy and Mary Judy and Mary (often stylized as JUDY AND MARY) was a Japanese rock band formed in 1991 in Japan by bassist Yoshihito Onda and vocalist Yuki, with drummer Kohta Igarashi and guitarist Taiji Fujimoto completing the lineup in 1992. Guitarist Taku ...

, 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 * ''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 This is a list of characters from the ''Guilty Gear'' fighting game series. Creation and influences Daisuke Ishiwatari has cited Kazushi Hagiwara's manga ''Bastard!!'', and the fighting game ''Street Fighter II'' as influence to the ''Guilty G ...

, a character in the ''Guilty Gear'' game series * The Jam (comics), by Bernie Mireault * HBO Kids, formerly known as "Jam" from 2001 until 2016

Codes

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

(ISO country code: JAM) *

Jamaican Patois Jamaican Patois (; locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with West African influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora. A majority of the non-English ...

(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 Perforce Jam was an open-source build system developed by Christopher Seiwald of Perforce Software. It was used as a replacement for make. Its primary feature was its ability to express build patterns in an imperative language which supported s ...

, a software building tool *

.jam JAM / STAPL ("Standard Test and Programming Language") is an Altera-developed standard for JTAG in-circuit programming of programmable logic devices which is defined by JEDEC standard JESD-71. STAPL defines a standard ''.jam'' file format whic ...

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

Media

BBC Jam BBC Jam (formerly known as BBC Digital Curriculum) was an online educational service operated by the BBC from January 2006 to 20 March 2007. The service was available free across the United Kingdom offering multi-media educational resources. J ...

, 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 Hull University Students' Union (HUSU) is the students' union for the University of Hull in Kingston upon Hull, England. It is run as a completely separate entity to the university itself but enjoys a close working partnership with the Univer ...

, the student radio station of the University of Hull, England

Organisations

JAM (trade union) JAM is a trade union representing manufacturing workers in Japan. The union was founded on 9 September 1999, when the Japanese Metal Industrial Workers' Union merged with the National Metal and Machinery Workers' Union The National Metal and Ma ...

, a manufacturing trade union in Japan *

JAM Creative Productions JAM Creative Productions, Inc., is an American company that produces radio jingles, promo music for television, and commercial jingles for advertisers. It has made more radio jingles than any other jingle company and has become part of America ...

, a jingle company in Texas, US * JAM Productions (company), a short-lived computer game development company *

Naughty Dog Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Gav ...

, formerly JAM Software Inc., first-party video game developer in California US *

Jamaat al Muslimeen The Jamaat al Muslimeen (, also transliterated as Jamaat-ul Muslimeen or Jama'at al-Muslimeen, ''"School of Muslims", "Group of Muslims", "The Muslim Group", "The Muslim Assembly", "The Muslim Society", "The Muslim Community"'') is a radical extr ...

, 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) {{No footnotes, date=August 2017 Jam (or may called ''Ja'am'') is a native title of rulers of a few princely states, notably born in western British India by the Samma dynasty, Samaa dynasty and their Jadeja branch. Jam: * The leaders of the Islam ...

, various rulers in India and Pakistan *

Jam Handy Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy (March 6, 1886 – November 13, 1983) was an American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, and founder of the Jam Handy Organization (JHO), a producer of commercially sponsored motion pictures, slidefilms (l ...

(1886–1983), American swimmer and film producer

Places

Iran

* Jam County, Bushehr Province **

Jam, Iran Jam ( fa, جم; also romanized as Jamm; also known as Jām-e Jam) is a city in and capital of Jam County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 10,809, in 2,734 families. It has an airport close to the city and has rece ...

, a city ** Jam Rural District * Jam, Khuzestan, a village * Jam, Semnan, a village

Elsewhere

Jamrud Jamrūd (Pashto/ ur, جمرود) or Jam ( ps, جم) is a town in the Khyber District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, on the western fringe of Peshawar city, Jamrud is the doorway to the Khyber Pass which is jus ...

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

Minaret of Jam The Minaret of Jam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western Afghanistan. It is located in a remote and nearly inaccessible region of the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, next to the Hari River. The or high minaret was built around 1190 entire ...

, Afghanistan

Sports

* Jam, a round in a roller derby game * Long Beach Jam (2003–2005) and Bakersfield Jam (2006–2016), later

Northern Arizona Suns The Motor City Cruise are an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in Detroit, Michigan, and are affiliated with the Detroit Pistons. The Cruise play their home games at Wayne State Fieldhouse. The franchise began play a ...

, a basketball team

Other uses

* Jam., an abbreviation for the

Epistle of James The Epistle of James). is a general epistle and one of the 21 epistles ( didactic letters) in the New Testament. James 1:1 identifies the author as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" who is writing to "the twelve tribes ...

* 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 Jamaica Time (JAM) is the official time in Jamaica. It is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00).Timeanddate.co Retrieved January, 13, 2019 Jamaica has only one time zone and does not observe daylight saving time. During winter ...

, shortened to JAM, official time of Jamaica, UTC−5