PAM

Arts and entertainment

"Pam" (song), by Justin Quiles, Daddy Yankee and El Alfa
Progressive Art Movement, a 1970s art movement in Adelaide, South Australia
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, United States
Pam the Bird, a common graffiti tag in Melbourne, Victoria
Performing Arts Museum, former name of the Australian Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Pam, a name for the jack of clubs in the card game Lanterloo or Loo

Military

P.A.M. 1 & P.A.M. 2 (Pistola Ametrelladora Modelo), an Argentine submachine gun based on the US M3 "Grease Gun"
Permanent Active Militia, predecessor of the Canadian Army
Policy Analysis Market, an abandoned DARPA program
Precision Attack Munition, an abandoned artillery missile project
M150 Penetration Augmented Munition, an explosive device developed for the US Air Force
Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida, US (IATA code PAM)

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Organizations

Agrarian Party of Moldova, or Partidul Agrar din Moldova
Authenticity and Modernity Party, or Parti Authenticité et Modernité, a political party in Morocco
Party of the Vlachs of Macedonia, known in Aromanian as Partia Armãnjilor ditu Machidunie
People's Action Movement, a political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis

PAM Health, formerly Post Acute Medical
Pharmaceutical Association of Mauritius
Pont-à-Mousson Company, French iron pipe manufacturer (established 1856)
Service Union United (Finnish: Palvelualojen ammattiliitto), a trade union in Finland
World Food Programme, also known as Programme alimentaire mondial, a United Nations organization

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Science and technology

PAM (gene), human gene that encodes peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase
Pancreatic acinar metaplasia, in gastroenterology
Photoacoustic microscopy, a type of photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine
Pneumatic artificial muscles, used in artificial limbs
Point accepted mutation, a type of similarity matrix in computational biology
Positive allosteric modulator, in pharmacology
Pralidoxime, 2-PAM, or pyridine aldoximine methiodide; an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
Pregnancy-associated malaria
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
Protospacer adjacent motif, a genetic DNA recognition sequence

PAM graphics format, used by Netpbm
PAM library, Parallel Augmented Map, a parallel library for ordered sets and maps using balanced binary trees
Pluggable authentication modules (also known as X/Open Single Sign-on), a Unix authentication framework
- OpenPAM
- Linux PAM
Privileged access management, a type of cybersecurity tool

Partitioning Around Medoids, in statistics, a data clustering algorithm
Payload Assist Module, a small rocket engine, also referred to as a PAM-D
Phone-as-Modem, sharing a phone's internet connection with other devices
Polyacrylamide, a polymer
Positive electrode Active Material, the surface layer of the positive electrode of a rechargeable battery
Pulse-amplitude modulation, a technique for encoding information onto a series of signal pulses

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Other uses

PAM (cooking oil), a brand of cooking spray, acronym of "Product of Arthur Meyerhoff"
PAM Transport, a trucking company in Arkansas
Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad, reporting mark PAM
Kapampangan language (ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code pam), in the Philippines
Pam language, a nearly extinct language of northern Cameroon

Geography