Charm

Charm may refer to:

Social science

• Charisma, a person or thing's pronounced ability to attract others
• Superficial charm, flattery, telling people what they want to hear

Science and technology

• Charm quark, a type of elementary particle
• Charm (quantum number), the difference between the number of charm quarks and charm antiquarks in a particle

Computing

• Charm (programming language), devised in the 1990s, similar to RTL/2, Pascal and C
• Charm++, a parallel programming language based on C++
• Charms, part of the Windows shell user interface in Microsoft Windows 8 and 8.1

Magic and superstition

• Magic charm or incantation
• Charm, an object believed to have been magically charmed, such as an amulet
• Trinket, on a charm bracelet

Business

• BlackBerry Charm, a mobile phone
• Motorola Charm, a smartphone
• Charm (finance), in quantitative finance, a second order derivative of an option pricing function versus the underlying spot price and time
• Unicharm Corporation (ユニ·チャーム株式会社, Yuni Chāmu kabushiki kaisha), a Japanese company that manufactures disposable hygiene products, and household cleaning products
• The Charm Company, manufacturer of Charms Blow Pops candy; acquired by Tootsie Roll Industries
• Charms, a brand of cigarette manufactured by VST Industries

Arts and entertainment

Literature

• The Charm, play by Walter Besant 1896
• The Charm, poetry collection by Robert Creeley 1969
• The Charm, poetry collection by Kathy Fagan
• The Charm (play), a play by Christopher R. Shimmin

Music

Bands

• The Charms, an American garage rock band
• Otis Williams and the Charms, an American doo-wop group

Albums

• The Charm, by American rapper Bubba Sparxxx
• The Charm (T. S. Monk album), 1995
• Charm (album), by American producer and rapper Danny!

Songs

• "Charm", a song by Wild Colonials from the album This Can't Be Life
• "Charm", a song by Tony Banks from the album The Fugitive 1983
• "Charm", a song by Positive Noise 1981
• "Charm", a song by Virginia Astley 1987
• "Charms" (Bobby Vee song), 1963
• "Charms" (The Philosopher Kings song), 1996

People

• Daniel Charms, a pseudonym of Russian poet, writer and dramatist Daniil Kharms (1905–1942)
• Charm Tong (born 1981), teacher and human rights activist from Shan State, Burma

Other uses

• Charm, Ohio, an unincorporated community in the US
• Baltimore Charm, a franchise in the Legends Football League (formerly the Lingerie Football League)
• Miss Charm, an annual beauty pageant
• Royal Ordnance L30, Challenger armament (CHARM) project to provide a new main armament for the British Challenger 2 tank

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Charm
• All pages with titles containing Charm
• Charmstone, a stone or mineral artifact of various types associated with various traditional cultures
• CHARMM (Chemistry at Harvard Macromolecular Mechanics), a widely used set of force fields for molecular dynamics
• Charmed (disambiguation)
• Charmer (disambiguation)
• Charming (disambiguation)
• Charmy (disambiguation)
• Lucky charm (disambiguation)