Sam

Sam, SAM or SAm may refer to:

Weapon

• Surface-to-air missile, an anti-aircraft missile

People

• 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
• Samantha, Samhita, Samskruthi female given name often shortened to Sam
• Sammy, an informal variation on the name Sam
• Samuel (name), includes a list of people known as "Sam"

Animals

• 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
• Sam (ugly dog) (1990–2005), dog voted the world's ugliest dog in 2003, 2004, and 2005
• Unsinkable Sam, a cat who lived through World War Two on three different military ships, and survived each of their sinkings

Places

• IOC and FIFA country code for American Samoa
• Sam, Benin
• Sam, Burkina Faso (disambiguation), several towns in Burkina Faso
• Sam, Idaho, United States

Entertainment

• Sam, one half of the Freelance Police duo known as Sam & Max
• Sam (1967 film), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
• Sam (film), a 1986 documentary film
• Sam Puckett, a fictional character in the TV show iCarly
• Sam Gamgee, a.k.a. Samwise Gamgee and Samwise Gardner, a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
• "Sam" (Meat Puppets song), 1991
• "Sam" (Olivia Newton-John song), 1977
• Sam (Osvajači album), 1995
• Sam (Škabo album), 2003
• Sam (Trick 'r Treat), the main character in the horror movie Trick 'r Treat
• Sam (1973 TV series), a 1973 British television drama series
• Sam (1978 TV series), an American crime drama television series

Software

• SAM Broadcaster
• SAM card (Security Authentication Module card), a small smart card used to hold cryptographic keys
• Sam (text editor), a text editor by Rob Pike
• San Andreas Multiplayer, the multiplayer feature on GTA: San Andreas
• Secure access module
• Security Accounts 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
• Simple Anonymous Messaging, a protocol specification used in the I2P network layer
• SlideME Application Manager, the native Android Application for the SlideME alternative Android application market
• Software asset management
• Software Automatic Mouth, a computer program for speech synthesis
• Microsoft Sam, the default voice for the screen reader program in Windows 2000 and Windows XP
• Symantec Anti-Virus for Macintosh

Science and technology

• SAm, in astrophysics, the de Vaucouleurs code for an unbarred one-armed Magellanic spiral galaxy
• 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
• Scanning Auger microscope, a device to image the surface using Auger electron spectroscopy
• Self-assembled monolayer, an organized layer of amphiphilic molecules
• Sequence Alignment Map, a standard data storage format for DNA sequencing
• 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
• Simulation for Automatic Machinery, two minicomputers
• 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
• Sparse Anti-Magic square, in mathematics, another name for an Antimagic square
• Swinging Atwood's machine, a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine
• Sample Analysis at Mars, an instrument aboard the Curiosity rover on Mars
• Synchronous Address Multiplexer, a Motorola-produced IC-chip used for mediating RAM access in certain 8-bit computers
• Spore photoproduct lyase, an enzyme

Business

• SAM, the stock ticker symbol of the Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams
• SAM Records, an American disco/post-disco record company
• S.A.M.: Simply About Music, a satellite-driven radio network
• Sustainable Asset Management a sustainable investment company
• Serviceable available market, the customers that can actually be reached out of the total addressable market

Transportation

• SAM, IATA airport code of Salamo Airport in Papua New Guinea
• SAM (vehicles), a Greek truck manufacturer
• Sandy Area Metro a transit system in Sandy, Oregon
• Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín, a Colombian airline

Other uses

• Sam (Olympic mascot), the mascot of the 1984 Summer Olympics
• SAM Coupé, an 8-bit British home computer
• the Sam languages, comprising Somali, Rendille and Boni, i. e., the Macro-Somali languages without Baiso
• Seattle Art Museum
• Shared appreciation mortgage
• Sigma Alpha Mu, a fraternity founded at the City College of New York
• 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
• South Australian Museum
• Stop action magnet, a device used in a pipe organs
• Syriac Abbreviation Mark, a Unicode control character in the Syriac block

See also

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