Charm or Charms may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

The Charms The Charms are an American garage rock band from Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, who were formed in 2002. Following 8 straight years of releasing records and touring the band went on a hiatus and returned for a few one off shows befo ...

, an American garage rock band *

Otis Williams and the Charms Otis Williams and the Charms were an American doo-wop vocal group in the 1950s, who were originally billed as The Charms. Williams is not related to Otis Williams of The Temptations. Career Otis Williams (born June 2, 1936, in Cincinnati, Ohio ...

, an American doo-wop group * ''The Charm'' (Bubba Sparxxx album), 2006 * ''Charm'' (Danny! album), 2006 * ''Charm'' (Clairo album), 2024 * "Charm" (Rema song), 2023 * "Charm", a song by Wild Colonials from the 1996 album '' This Can't Be Life'' * "Charm", a song by Tony Banks from the 1983 album '' The Fugitive'' * "Charm", a 1981 song by Positive Noise * "Charm", a 1986 song by

Virginia Astley Virginia Astley (born 26 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter most active during the 1980s and 1990s. Her songwriting career started in 1980, with her classical training significantly influencing her music. Although most popular in As ...

* "Charms" (Bobby Vee song), 1963 * "Charms" (The Philosopher Kings song), 1995 * ''Charm'' (TV series), a Burmese TV series

Magic and superstition

* Charm, or

incantation An incantation, spell, charm, enchantment, or bewitchery is a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects. The formula can be spoken, sung, or chanted. An incantation can also be performed during ceremonial ri ...

, a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect * Charm, a lucky symbol * Charm, a jewelled ornament on a

charm bracelet A charm bracelet is a type of bracelet which carries personal jewelled ornaments or "charms", such as decorative pendants or wikt:trinket, trinkets. The decorative charms usually carry personal or sentimental attachment by the owner. History Th ...

Science and technology

Quantum physics

Charm quark The charm quark, charmed quark, or c quark is an elementary particle found in composite subatomic particles called hadrons such as the J/psi meson and the charmed baryons created in particle accelerator collisions. Several bosons, including th ...

, an elementary particle *

Charm (quantum number) Charm (symbol ''C'') is a flavour quantum number representing the difference between the number of charm quarks () and charm antiquarks () that are present in a particle: :C = n_\text - n_\ By convention, the sign of flavour quantum numbers agr ...

, the difference between the number of charm quarks and charm antiquarks in a particle

Computing

Charm (programming language) Charm is a computer programming language devised in the early 1990s with similarities to the RTL/2, Pascal and C languages in addition to containing some unique features of its own. The Charm language is defined by a context-free grammar amenab ...

, devised in the 1990s *

Charm++ Charm++ is a parallel object-oriented programming paradigm based on C++ and developed in the Parallel Programming Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Charm++ is designed with the goal of enhancing programmer productivi ...

, a parallel programming language based on C++ * Charms, part of the Windows shell#Charms, Windows shell user interface

Devices

* BlackBerry Charm, a smartphone * Motorola Charm, a smartphone

People

* Daniel Charms, a pseudonym of Russian poet, writer and dramatist Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) * Charm Chiteule (1953–2008), Zambian boxer * Charm La'Donna (born 1988), American dancer * Charm Tong (born 1981), Burmese teacher and human rights activist

Other uses

* Charm, Ohio, an unincorporated community in the US * Baltimore Charm, an American women's football team * Miss Charm, an annual beauty pageant * Royal Ordnance L30, conceive by the Challenger armament (CHARM) project * List of animal names, An animal collective name for finches * Charm (finance), a second-order derivative in mathematical finance * Charms Candy Company, manufacturer of Charms candy * Charms, a brand of cigarette manufactured by VST Industries