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'''Pam''' or '''PAM''' may refer to:

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== Geography ==
* [[Pam, Iran]], a village in Markazi Province
* [[Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion]] (PAM), United States
* [[Pam Islands]], Papua New Guinea

== People and fictional characters==
* [[Pam (given name)]], a list of people and fictional characters
* [[Pam (surname)]], a list of people
* [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]] (1784–1865), nicknamed Pam

==Arts and entertainment==
* [[Pam (song)|"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 ({{lang|es|Pistola Ametrelladora Modelo}}), an Argentine submachine gun based on the US [[M3 submachine gun#P.A.M. 1 and 2 (Argentina)|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)

== Organizations ==
=== Political parties===
* [[Agrarian Party of Moldova]], or {{lang|ro|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 {{lang|rup|Partia Armãnjilor ditu Machidunie}}
* [[People's Action Movement]], a political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis

=== Other organizations ===
* [[PAM Health]], formerly ''Post Acute Medical''
* [[Pharmaceutical Association of Mauritius]]
* [[Pont-à-Mousson Company]], French iron pipe manufacturer (established 1856) 
* [[Service Union United]] ({{langx|fi|Palvelualojen ammattiliitto|links=no}}), a trade union in Finland
* [[World Food Programme]], also known as ''Programme alimentaire mondial'', a United Nations organization

== Science and technology ==
===Biology and healthcare===
* [[PAM (gene)]], human gene that encodes peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase
* [[Pancreatic acinar metaplasia]], in gastroenterology
* Photoacoustic microscopy, a type of [[Photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine#Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM)|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

===Computing ===
* [[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 module]]s (also known as X/Open Single Sign-on), a Unix authentication framework
** [[OpenPAM]]
** [[Linux PAM]]
* [[Privileged access management]], a type of cybersecurity tool

=== Other uses in science and technology ===
* [[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

== Storms ==
* [[Cyclone Pam (1974)]]
* [[Cyclone Pam (1997)]]
* [[Cyclone Pam]], a tropical cyclone from the 2014–15 South Pacific cyclone season

== 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

== See also ==
* {{lookfrom|Pam}}
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* [[PAMS (disambiguation)]]

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