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A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aqua ...
is a barrier obstructing flowing water.
Dam may also refer to:
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Dam, Bhutan
Dam is a town in Dagana District in southwestern Bhutan.
References
External linksSatellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Bhutan
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Dam, Gennep, in the Dutch municipality of
Gennep
Gennep () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in upper southeastern Netherlands. It lies in the very northern part of the province of Limburg, Netherlands, Limburg, 18 km south of Nijmegen. Furthermore, it lies on the ...
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Dam, Hollands Kroon, in the Dutch municipality of
Hollands Kroon
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Dam Square
Dam Square or the Dam () is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the best-known and most important locations in the city and the country.
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, Amsterdam
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Den Dam, in northern Antwerp, Belgium
Abbreviations and acronyms
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Database activity monitoring
Database activity monitoring (DAM, a.k.a. Enterprise database auditing and Real-time protection) is a database security technology for monitoring and analyzing database activity. DAM may combine data from network-based monitoring and native audit ...
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Decametre
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Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With an encyclopedic collection of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums betwe ...
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Digital asset management
Digital asset management (DAM) and the implementation of its use as a computer application is required in the collection of digital assets to ensure that the owner, and possibly their delegates, can perform operations on the data files.
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Solidarity Federation#Direct Action Movement
Transport
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Dalmeny railway station's station code
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Damascus International Airport's IATA code
Other uses
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Dam (agricultural reservoir)
A dam is a water reservoir in the ground, confined by a barrier, embankment or excavation, on a pastoral property or similar. The term is found widely in South African English, South African, Australian English, Australian and New Zealand English, ...
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DAM (band), a Palestinian rap group
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Dam (Indian coin)
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Nepalese dam
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Dam (methylase), DNA adenine methylase
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Dam (surname), a surname
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Dams (surname), a surname
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The Dam'' a 1913 painting by Dominique Lang
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Dental dam
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WCMG, a South Carolina, US radio station once called "94.3 The Dam"
* Dam, female role in the Dominican
bélé dance
* Dam, the female parent of a horse, a term used in
horse breeding
Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given Horse breed, breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired chara ...
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Ten Plagues of Egypt
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"Dam" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), a television episode
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Dam (TV series), a South African psychological thriller television series
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"Dam" (song), a song by
SB19
People
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Atli Dam (1932–2005), Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
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Henrik Dam
Carl Peter Henrik Dam (21 February 1895 – 17 April 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiolo ...
(1895–1976), Danish biochemist
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Jan Dam (footballer) (born 1968), Faroese footballer
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Jan Dam (boxer) (1905–1985), Belgian boxer
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José van Dam (born 1940), Belgian bass-baritone
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Kenneth W. Dam (1932–2022), American lawyer and politician
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Kurtis Dam (born 1985), Swiss-American drag queen
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Laurens ten Dam (born 1980), Dutch cycle racer
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Peter Mohr Dam (1898–1968), Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
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Rigmor Dam (born 1971), Faroese politician
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Rob Van Dam
Robert Szatkowski (born December 18, 1970) better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam (frequently abbreviated to RVD) is an American professional wrestler. Known for his unique ring style—which includes his variety of kicks, acrobatic movemen ...
(born 1970), American actor
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Thomas Dam (1909–1986), inventor of the troll doll
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Đàm Thanh Xuân (born 1985), Vietnamese swimmer and martial artist
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Avalanche dam
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Landslide dam
A landslide dam or barrier lake is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption. If the damming landslide is caused by an earthquake, it may also be called a quake lake. Some ...
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Volcanic dam
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Damn (disambiguation)
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Dum (disambiguation)
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