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Dictionary: gam1   (găm) pronunciation
 
n.
  1. A social visit or friendly interchange, especially between whalers or seafarers.
  2. A herd of whales or a social congregation of whalers, especially at sea. See synonyms at flock1.

v., gammed, gam·ming, gams.

v.intr.

To hold a visit, especially while at sea.

v.tr.
  1. To visit with.
  2. To spend (time) talking or visiting.

[Perhaps short for GAMMON2 or variant of GAME1.]


gam2 (găm) pronunciation
n. Slang.

A person's leg.

[Probably from Polari (theatrical argot), from Italian gamba, from Late Latin, hoof. See gambol.]


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Statistics Dictionary: generalized additive model
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Variant: GAM

Model analogous to a generalized linear model in which the linear combination of explanatory variables is replaced by a linear combination of scatterplot smoothers.



 
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Gam may be:

  • Gam, Cornwall, a town in southwestern England
  • Gam (island), an island of Indonesia
  • Dafydd Gam
  • The Free Aceh Movement (in Indonesian: Gerakan Aceh Merdeka)
  • GAM (group), a Japanese pop group
  • The title of a villages elected tribal chief among the Himalayan Adi people
  • The GAM in English referring to Costa Rica's largest urban zone. In Spanish: "La Gran Área Metropolitana" (GAM)

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