Palm most commonly refers to: * Palm of the

hand A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the Koala#Characteristics, koala (which has two thumb#O ...

, the central region of the front of the hand * Palm plants, of family

Arecaceae The Arecaceae () is a family (biology), family of perennial plant, perennial, flowering plants in the Monocotyledon, monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbing palm, climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly k ...

List of Arecaceae genera This is a list of all the genera in the botanical family Arecaceae, the palm family, based on Baker & Dransfield (2016), which is a revised listing of genera given in the 2008 edition of '' Genera Palmarum''. Taxonomy This is a list of all the ...

Palm oil Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 36% of global oils produced from o ...

* Several other plants known as "palm" Palm or Palms may also refer to:

Music

* Palm (band), an American rock band *

Palms (band) Palms is an American post-metal supergroup that formed in 2011. The group features Deftones' vocalist Chino Moreno and three members of the post-metal band Isis: bassist Jeff Caxide, drummer Aaron Harris and guitarist Bryant Clifford M ...

, an American rock band featuring members of Deftones and Isis **

Palms (Palms album) ''Palms'' is the first studio album by the alternative rock band Palms. It was released in 2013 in CD digipack, limited edition vinyl, limited edition cassette and digital download formats by Ipecac Records. The album was made available for ...

, their 2013 album * Palms (Thrice album), a 2018 album by American rock band Thrice

Businesses and organizations

Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc., was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and developing software. Palm designed the PalmPilot, the first PDA successfully marketed worldwide, and was known for the Treo 600, one ...

, defunct American electronics manufacturer *

Palm Breweries Palm Breweries is a brewery company. It owns several different Belgian breweries. Total production was 1,700,000 hl of beer in 2004. The brewery was a member of the Belgian Family Brewers society until 2016. History As early as 1597, records can ...

, a Belgian company *

Palm Pictures Palm Pictures is an American entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell. Palm Pictures produces, acquires, and distributes music and film projects with a particular focus on the DVD-Video format. Palm places an emphasis on such proj ...

, an American entertainment company *

Palm Records Palm Records (short for ''Productions Artistiques Littéraires et Musicales'') was a French jazz record label founded by Jef Gilson in the early 1970s. Discography *PALM 1: Gilson Malagasy 1972 *PALM 2: Jef Gilson / Jean-Charles Capon / Gi ...

, a French jazz record label *

Palms Casino Resort Palms Casino Resort is a hotel and casino located near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. It includes 703 rooms and a casino. It was originally owned by th ...

, a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, U.S. *

The Palm (restaurant) The Palm is an international chain of American fine-dining steakhouses that began in 1926. The original location was in New York City at 837 Second Avenue (between East 44th Street and East 45th Street) in Manhattan. Since its beginnings, ma ...

, New York City, U.S. *

Palm Cabaret and Bar The Palm Cabaret and Bar (sometimes abbreviated as The Palm) is a bar and performance venue in Zona Romántica, Puerto Vallarta, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Description The venue hosts a variety of comedy, music, and theater acts. According ...

, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico

Places

United States

Midway, Lafayette County, Arkansas Midway (also known as Palm) is an unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Arkansas, United States. Midway is located on Arkansas Highway 29 Arkansas Highway 29 (AR 29) is a designation for two state highways in South Arkansas. One se ...

, also known as Palm *

Palm, Pennsylvania Palm is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies along Pennsylvania Route 29 between Hereford and East Greenville at latitude 40.4281539 longitude −75.5329608. It is located in Upper Hanover Tow ...

Palms, Los Angeles Palms (originally "The Palms") is a community in the Westside (Los Angeles County), Westside region of Los Angeles, California, founded in 1886 and the oldest neighborhood annexed to the city, in 1915. The 1886 tract was marketed as an agri ...

** Palms station * Palms, Minden Township, Michigan

Elsewhere

* Palms,

Walkerston, Queensland Walkerston is a town and locality in Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. The town is situated on the Peak Downs Highway south-west of Mackay. In the , the locality of Walkerston had a population of 3,615 people. Geography Walkerston is bo ...

, Australia *

Palm Islands The Palm Islands consist of three artificial island, artificial archipelagos: Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Islands (formerly known as Palm Deira or Deira Islands), and Palm Jebel Ali, off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Palm Islands were ...

, three artificial islands on the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Science and technology

PaLM Palm most commonly refers to: * Palm of the hand, the central region of the front of the hand * Palm plants, of family Arecaceae ** List of Arecaceae genera **Palm oil * Several other plants known as "palm" Palm or Palms may also refer to: Music ...

, a large language model developed by Google *

Palm (PDA) Palm is a now discontinued line of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones developed by California-based Palm, Inc., originally called Palm Computing, Inc. Palm devices are often remembered as "the first wildly popular handheld co ...

, a personal digital assistant **

Palm OS Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. ...

, a discontinued operating system *

Photoactivated localization microscopy Photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM or FPALM) and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) are widefield (as opposed to point scanning techniques such as laser scanning confocal microscopy) fluorescence microscopy imaging meth ...

(PALM) *

PALM Palm most commonly refers to: * Palm of the hand, the central region of the front of the hand * Palm plants, of family Arecaceae ** List of Arecaceae genera **Palm oil * Several other plants known as "palm" Palm or Palms may also refer to: Music ...

gene in humans * PALM (IBM processor) a CPU used in early IBM Desktops

Other uses

Palm (surname) Palm or Palms is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Palm * Anders Palm (born 1942), Swedish literary scholar and linguist * Archibald Palm (1901–1966), South African cricketer * August Palm (1849–1922), Swedish socialist ...

, a name (including a list of people with the name) *

Palm (unit) The palm is an obsolete Anthropic units, anthropic units of measurement, unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized. The same name is also used for a second, rather larger unit based on the leng ...

, an obsolete unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm *

Palm branch The palm branch, or palm frond, is a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life originating in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The palm ''(Phoenix (plant), Phoenix)'' was sacred in Mesopotamian religions, and in ancient E ...

, a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life *

Palm Sunday Palm Sunday is the Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. Its name originates from the palm bran ...

, Sunday before Easter celebrated by Christians *

Palming Palming is a technique for holding or concealing an object in the hand. It is used frequently by magicians to conceal a card, coin, or other object. When it is done skillfully, the hand containing the palmed object is perceived to be completely ...

, a sleight-of-hand technique * Palm, an enhancement to the ''

Croix de Guerre The (, ''Cross of War'') is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins. The decoration was first awarded during World ...

'' award * Palm, ISO 15924 code for

Palmyrene script The Palmyrene alphabet was a historical Semitic alphabet used to write Palmyrene Aramaic. It was used between 100 BCE and 300 CE in Palmyra in the Syrian desert. The oldest surviving Palmyrene inscription dates to 44 BCE. The last surviving in ...

Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme is a guest worker program that allows Australian businesses to hire temporary workers from nine Pacific island countries and Timor-Leste. The scheme allows participating workers to work in seasonal a ...