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Sam
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SAM
or variants may refer to:
Places
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Sam, Benin
Sam, Boulkiemdé
, Burkina Faso
Sam, Bourzanga
, Burkina Faso
Sam, Kongoussi
, Burkina Faso
Sam, Iran
Sam,
Teton County, Idaho
, United States, a populated place
People and fictional characters
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Sam (given name)
, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname
Sam (surname)
, a list of people with the surname
Cen (surname)
(岑), romanized "Sam" in Cantonese
Shen (surname)
(沈), often romanized "Sam" in Cantonese and other languages
Religious or legendary figures
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Sam (Book of Mormon)
, elder brother of Nephi
Sām
, a Persian mythical folk hero
Sam Ziwa
, an uthra (angel or celestial being) in Mandaeism
Sam
, Shem in Islam
Animals
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Sam (army dog)
(died 2000)
Sam (horse)
(b 1815), British Thoroughbred
Sam (koala)
(died 2009), rescued after 2009 bush fires in Victoria, Australia
Sam (orangutan)
, in the movie
Dunston Checks In
Sam (ugly dog)
(1990–2005), voted the world's ugliest dog in 2003, 2004, and 2005
Unsinkable Sam
(died 1955), a cat which survived the sinking of three ships during World War II
Arts and entertainment
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For fictional characters, see
Sam (given name) § Fictional characters
.
Sam
(1967 film)
, directed by Larry Buchanan
Sam
(1986 film)
, a documentary
Sam
(2021 film)
, directed by Yan England
Sam
(Osvajači album)
, 1995
Sam
(Škabo album)
, 2003
"Sam" (Olivia Newton-John song)
, 1977
Sam
(1973 TV series)
, a British drama
Sam
(1978 TV series)
, an American crime drama
Sam
(Goodman novel)
, a 2023 novel by
Allegra Goodman
SAM Awards, for
South Australian Music Awards
Business
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Brands and enterprises
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SAM (vehicles)
, a Greek truck manufacturer
S.A.M.: Simply About Music
, a satellite-driven radio network
SAM, stock ticker of
Boston Beer Company
, the brewers of Samuel Adams beer
SAM Colombia
, a Colombian airline
SAM Records
, an American disco/post-disco record company
Società Aerea Mediterranea
, an Italian airline 1926-1934 and 1959-1981
Business terminology
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Serviceable available market
Shared appreciation mortgage
Social accounting matrix
of transactions in an economy
System for Award Management
(SAM), U.S. Government supplier database
Languages
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Sam languages
, comprising Somali, Rendille and Boni
Sam language
of New Guinea
Samaritan Aramaic language
, an extinct liturgical language (ISO 639-2, 639-3 code:
sam
)
Museums
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Seattle Art Museum
Singapore Art Museum
SAM, museum code for the
South Australian Museum
Organizations
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Sahabat Alam Malaysia
, an environmental NGO based in Malaysia
Scientific Advice Mechanism
of the European Commission
Serve America Movement
, an American political party
Society of American Magicians
Swimming Association of Maldives
Science and technology
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Biology, chemistry and medicine
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Phytelephas seemannii
, known in Cuna as '
sam
'
S
-Adenosyl methionine
, a common co-substrate involved in methyl group transfers
SAM, a
candidate phylum of bacteria
Sustained Acoustic Medicine
, a medical treatment for arthritis
SAMtools
(for Sequence Alignment Map), a data storage format for DNA sequencing
Self-assembled monolayer
of amphiphilic molecules
Shoot apical meristem
, a plant tissue
Significance analysis of microarrays
, in DNA microanalysis
Spore photoproduct lyase
, an enzyme
Sorting and assembly machinery
, a protein complex in the outer mitochondrial membrane
Segmental arterial mediolysis
, a medical condition affecting the arteries
Physics and astronomy
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Southern Annular Mode
of southern hemisphere atmospheric variability
Swinging Atwood's machine
SAm, an unbarred
Magellanic spiral
galaxy
Software and computing
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SAM (file format)
or Sequence Alignment Map, a data format used in bioinformatics
Sam (text editor)
SAM Coupé
, an 8-bit British home computer
Microsoft Sam
, a voice for the screen reader in Windows 2000 and XP
SAM, a New Zealand
chatbot
that discuss politics
SAM Lock Tool, better known as
Syskey
Sequential access memory
Simple Anonymous Messaging, a protocol specification used in the
I2P
network layer
Simulation for Automatic Machinery
, two minicomputers
Software asset management
Software Automatic Mouth
, speech synthesis program
Synchronous Address Multiplexer, a chip in some 8-bit computers; see
Color Computer § SAM
Syriac Abbreviation Mark
, a Unicode control character
Security
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SAM card
(Security Authentication Module card), holding cryptographic keys
Secure access module
Security Account Manager
in Microsoft Windows
Other
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Scanning acoustic microscope
Sample Analysis at Mars
, on the Curiosity rover
Scanning Auger microscope in
Auger electron spectroscopy
Scheduled Ancient Monument
, commonly used name for British archaeological designation
Small article monitor
, screening for radioactive contamination
Sparse
antimagic square
, in mathematics
Stop action magnet
in a pipe organ
Surface-to-air missile
, a type of missile
Sports
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Sam (mascot)
, 1984 Summer Olympics
Strongside linebacker
, gridiron football nickname
Sam Maguire Cup
, often known as "Sam", of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in gaelic football
Other uses
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Tropical Storm Sam
, various storms named Sam
Sandy Area Metro
, Oregon, US
Sam FM (disambiguation)
Schule am Meer
(S.a.M. or SaM), a former boarding school in Juist, East Frisian islands, Free State of Prussia, German Reich
Special administrative measures
, in US law
Split attraction model
, a psychology model about sexual orientation
Sam
, in Indian classical music, the first count of a
tala
SAM, IATA airport code for
Salamo Airport
in Papua, New Guinea
SAM, IOC and FIFA country code for
Samoa
See also
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Uncle Sam
, a personification of the US government
Samsø
, earlier Samsey, literally "Sam's island"
Sam. (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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