Bam

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Bam
    n 1: an ancient city in southeastern Iran; destroyed by an
         earthquake in 2003
    2: a sudden very loud noise [syn: {bang}, {clap}, {eruption},
       {blast}, {bam}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bam \bam\ (b[a^]m), n. [Prob. a contr. of bamboozle.]
   An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. --Garrick.
   [1913 Webster]

         To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all
         manner of bams.                          --Prof.
                                                  Wilson.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bam \Bam\, v. t.
   To cheat; to wheedle. [Slang] --Foote.
   [1913 Webster]

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

BAM
       Bidirectional Associative Memory (neural nets)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

BAM
       Bundesanstalt fuer Materialpruefung (org., Berlin, Germany)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

BAM
       Block-Availability-Map