Sam

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Sam, SAM or SAm may refer to:

Samuel/Sam

People

• Samuel (name), includes a list of people known as "Sam"
• Samantha
• Sām, a Persian folk hero, whose name means 'very dark'
• Sam (Book of Mormon), the third son of Lehi and elder brother to the prophet Nephi

Animals

• Sam (ugly dog) (1990–2005), dog voted the world's ugliest dog in 2003, 2004, and 2005
• Sam (army dog) (died 2000), former army dog that was awarded the Dickin Medal
• Sam (koala) (died 2009), koala rescued after the 2009 bush fires in Victoria, Australia
• Sam (orangutan), an orangutan that starred in the movie Dunston Checks In

Places

• Sam, Burkina Faso (disambiguation), several towns in Burkina Faso
• Sam, Benin, a town in Benin can be called Sammy

In entertainment

• Sam (Škabo album), 2003
• Sam (Osvajači album), 1995
• Sam (film), a 1986 documentary film
• Sam (1967 film), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
• "Sam" (Meat Puppets song), 1991
• "Sam" (Olivia Newton-John song), 1977
• Sam (1973 TV series), a 1973 British television drama series
• Sam (1978 TV series), an American crime drama television series
• Sam (Trick 'r Treat), the main character in the horror movie Trick 'r Treat

Other uses

• Sam (Olympic mascot), the mascot of the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Sam (text editor), a text editor by Rob Pike
• Microsoft Sam, the default voice for the screen reader program in Windows 2000 and Windows XP

SAM or SAm

Software

• Symantec Anti-Virus for Macintosh
• SAM card (Security Authentication Module card), a small smart card used to hold cryptographic keys
• Secure access module
• Security Account Manager, the accounts database used by Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, and later Microsoft operating systems
• Sequential access memory, a class of storage devices that are read sequentially
• Software asset management
• Software Automatic Mouth, a computer program for speech synthesis
• SAM Broadcaster

In science and technology

• S-Adenosyl methionine, a common co-substrate involved in methyl group transfers
• Scanning acoustic microscope, a device using focused sound to investigate, measure, or image an object
• Self-assembled monolayer, an organized layer of amphiphilic molecules
• Shoot apical meristem, a tissue in plant cells
• Significance analysis of microarrays, a permutation-based method to estimate the false discovery rate in microarray analysis
• Small article monitor, a monitoring device designed to screen small items for radioactive contamination
• Southern Annular Mode, a mode of atmospheric variability of the southern hemisphere
• Swinging Atwood's machine, a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine
• In mathematics, SAM is an acronym for Sparse anti-magic square, another name for Antimagic square
• In astrophysics, SAm is an acronym for a type of Magellanic spiral galaxy

In business

• SAM Records, an American disco/post-disco record company
• SAM (vehicles), a Greek truck manufacturer
• S.A.M.: Simply About Music, a satellite-driven radio network
• Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín, a Colombian airline
• SAM, the ticker symbol of the Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams
• Sustainable Asset Management a sustainable investment company

Other uses

• IOC and FIFA country code for American Samoa
• San Andreas Multiplayer, the multiplayer feature on GTA: San Andreas
• Sandy Area Metro in Sandy, Oregon
• Seattle Art Museum
• South Australian Museum
• Shared appreciation mortgage
• Sigma Alpha Mu, a fraternity
• Social accounting matrix, a matrix representation of the national accounts
• Society of American Magicians
• South Atlantic Medal, a British campaign medal for the Falklands War
• Stop action magnet, a device used in a pipe organs
• Surface-to-air missile, an anti-aircraft missile
• SAM Coupé an 8-bit British home computer
• Syriac Abbreviation Mark, a Unicode control character in the Syriac block
• Systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve, in cardiac medicine
• SAM, IATA airport code of Salamo Airport in Papua New Guinea

See also

• Uncle Sam, a personification of the United States government
• Samsø, earlier Samsey, literally "Sam's island"

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