PIM or Pim may refer to:

Computing

* Parallel inference machine, an intended

fifth generation computer The Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) was a 10-year initiative begun in 1982 by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to create computers using massively parallel computing and logic programming. It aimed to create ...

Personal information management Personal information management (PIM) is the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire or create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, and use information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages, and email mes ...

Personal information manager A personal information manager (often referred to as a PIM tool or, more simply, a PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. The acronym PIM is now, more commonly, used in reference to personal information manag ...

software *

Personal Information Module DR-DOS (written as DR DOS, without a hyphen, in versions up to and including 6.0) is a disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles. Upon its introduction in 1988, it was the first DOS attempting to be compatible with IBM PC DOS and MS- ...

for PalmDOS * Personal Iterations Multiplier for VeraCrypt *

Platform-independent model A platform-independent model (PIM) in software engineering is a model of a software system or business system that is independent of the specific technological platform used to implement it. The term platform-independent model is most frequently ...

in software engineering *

Protocol Independent Multicast 400px, Example of a multicast network architecture Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) is a family of multicast routing protocols for Internet Protocol (IP) networks that provide one-to-many and many-to-many distribution of data over a LAN, WA ...

, Internet protocols * Processor-in-memory, CPU and memory on the same chip

Engineering, science, and mathematics

Passive intermodulation Intermodulation (IM) or intermodulation distortion (IMD) is the amplitude modulation of signals containing two or more different frequencies, caused by nonlinearities or time variance in a system. The intermodulation between frequency comp ...

of signals *

Phosphatidylmyo-inositol mannosides Phosphatidylmyo-inositol Mannosides (PIMs) are a family of glycolipids found in the cell wall of ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis''. PIMs influence the interaction of the immune system with ''M. tuberculosis'', and mice that develop antibodies A ...

, a glycolipid component of the cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis *

Principal indecomposable module In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as module theory, a principal indecomposable module has many important relations to the study of a ring's modules, especially its simple modules, projective modules, and indecomposab ...

in mathematical module theory

Business

Product information management Product information management (PIM) is the process of managing all the information required to market and sell products through distribution channels. This product data is created by an internal organization to support a multichannel marketing s ...

Partnerized Inventory Management Partner-optimized inventory management, also known as partnerized inventory management or sometimes just the abbreviation PIM is an inventory management technique or model often used in deterministic inventory systems in which a significant porti ...

* Pim Brothers & Co., large Irish family business founded in the nineteenth century

People

Given name

Pim (name) Pim is a Dutch masculine given name, which is a diminutive of the name Willem.''Behind the Name''"Given Name Pim" Retrieved on 22 January 2016. The name may refer to: * Pim Balkestein (born 1987), Dutch football player * Pim Bekkering (1931– ...

Surname

Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim (12 June 1826 – 30 September 1886) was a Royal Navy officer, Arctic explorer, barrister, and author. He was the first man who travelled from a ship on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage to one on ...

, (1826-1886), Royal Navy officer *

Jonathan Pim (1806–1885) Jonathan Pim (1806 – 6 July 1885) was an Irish Liberal Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin City at the 1865 general election, and held the seat until the 1874 general election, when his absence abroad ...

, Irish politician *

Jonathan Pim (1858–1949) Jonathan Ernest Pim PC (1858–1949), was an Irish lawyer and judge, and Liberal politician. He was born in Dublin, eldest son of Thomas Pim of Greenbank;Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray London 1926 Vol. ii p.38 ...

, Irish lawyer and politician *

Joshua Pim Dr Joshua Pim FRCSI (20 May 1869 – 15 April 1942) was a medical doctor and Irish amateur tennis player. He won the Wimbledon men's singles title two years in a row, in 1893 and 1894, and was ranked British number one in both those years. He ...

(1869-1942), Irish doctor and tennis player *

Raymond Pim Raymond Thompson Pim (January 23, 1897 – May 14, 1993) was an American farmer and politician. Raymond Pim was born to parents Frank Lessig and Kate Thompson Pim on January 23, 1897. The family farm was located near Lucas, Iowa, Lucas. Pim gradu ...

(1897–1993), American politician

Fictional

* Pim Diffy, a character in TV series ''

Phil of the Future ''Phil of the Future'' is an American science fiction sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 18, 2004, to August 19, 2006, for two seasons. The series was created by Douglas Tuber and Tim Maile and produced by 2121 Production ...

'' * Pim Pimling, a character in the TV series ''

Smiling Friends ''Smiling Friends'' is an adult animated television series created by Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack for Cartoon Network's night-time programming block Adult Swim, which revolves around a small company dedicated to making people smile. The pi ...

Places

Pimhill Pimhill is a geographically large civil parish in Shropshire, England, to the north of Shrewsbury. It is named after a hill, which rises to 163m, sometimes spelt Pim Hill. In recent times the parish is more well known as " Bomere Heath and Dis ...

or Pim Hill, England *

Pim Island Pim Island (previously Bedford Pim Island) is located off the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island, part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Located within the Arctic Archipelago, it is a part of the Queen Elizabeth Isla ...

, Canada *

Pim (river) The Pim is a river in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Ob. It is long, with a drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as ...

, Russia *

Pondok Indah Mall Pondok Indah Mall (Indonesian: Mal Pondok Indah) or PIM is a large shopping complex located in the Pondok Indah suburb of South Jakarta, Indonesia. The Pondok Indah Mall complex (referred to by Jakartans as "PIM") comprises three large buildin ...

, Indonesia

Other uses

* ''

Pacific Islands Monthly ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', commonly referred to as "PIM", was a magazine founded in 1930 in Sydney by New Zealand born journalist R.W. Robson. Background ''Pacific Islands Monthly'' was started in Sydney in 1930. The first issue ran in Augu ...

'', a news magazine, discontinued 2000 *

Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for an infringement of the rules. Most penalties are enforced by sending the offending player to a penalty box for a set number of minutes. During the penalty the player may not participate in play. Penalti ...

(Penalties infraction minutes) *

Pim Fortuyn List The Pim Fortuyn List ( nl, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, LPF) was a list of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn, a former university professor and political columnist. The p ...

, Dutch political party *

Pim weight Pim weights were polished stones about 15 mm (5/8 inch) diameter, equal to about two-thirds of a Hebrew shekel. Many specimens have been found since their initial discovery early in the 20th century, and each one weighs about 7.6 grams, compar ...

in ancient Israel *

Prague International Marathon The Prague Marathon (also known as Prague International Marathon (PIM) and Volkswagen Prague Marathon) is an annual road marathon held in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic each May. It was founded in 1995 and has grown to become a sig ...

Providence Industrial Mission Providence Industrial Mission (PIM) was an independent church in Nyasaland, modern-day Malawi. The PIM was founded by John Chilembwe, who would later lead a rebellion against colonial rule, upon his return to Nyasaland in 1900 from the United ...

* Public Illumination Magazine