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Gum may refer to:
Substances
- Adhesive
- Bubble gum
- Chewing gum
- Ford Gum, a brand of bubble gum
- Gum (botany), a sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
- Gum arabic, made from the sap of species Acacia senegal of the acacia tree
- Gum base
- Gum copal, a resin produced from the sap of the forest tree Daniella
- Gum ghatti, made from the sap of Anogeissus latifolia tree
- Gum guaicum, a substance produced from the tree species Guaiacum officinale
- Gum guar, made from the seeds of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba Guar, an annual legume
- Gum karaya, made from the sap of Sterculia urens tree
- Gum metal, a titanium alloy with high elasticity
- Kauri gum, from the fossilized resin of Kauri trees
- Locust bean gum, made from the seeds of Ceratonia siliqua
- Postage stamp gum
- Spirit gum, used to affix applications to the body
- Spruce gum from the resin of spruce trees
- Xanthan gum, a common food thickener and stabilizer
People
- Gum (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
- Gum Mo-jam, military leader
- Trent Smith (born 1969), American college baseball coach
- Matthew Woolsey (born 1991), a.k.a. GUM, Australian musician
Places
- Gum (crater), a lunar impact crater
- Gum-Gum, a township in Malaysia
- Gum Springs, Arkansas
- Gum Wall, a brick wall covered in used chewing gum in Seattle
- White Gum Valley, Western Australia
- The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia
Science
- Gum bichromate, a 19th-century photographic printing process
- Gum depigmentation, a procedure used in cosmetic dentistry
- Gum over platinum, a chemical photographic process
- Gums, or gingiva, the soft tissue partly covering teeth
- Genitourinary medicine, deals with reproductive problems
Entertainment
- The Gum (Seinfeld), episode of the comedy television show
- Glasgow University Magazine, in Scotland
- Mr. Gum, the central character in a series of novels for children by Andy Stanton
- Gum, a character from the Jet Set Radio video game series
- Gum, a character in the British comic Monster Fun
- Great Aunt Kayla, a character in the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
- Gum, a character from the 2016 adult animated film Sausage Party
Other uses
- GUM (department store), in Moscow, Russia
- Global United Media, Indian film company
- Guam International Airport (IATA airport code: GUM)
- Rodriguez Air, a airline in Paramaribo, Suriname
- Gum languages of New Guinea
- Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO), see Measurement uncertainty
- GUM, a business unit of the Sunstar Group which designs and manufactures dental cleaning tools like toothbrushes and gum stimulators
See also
- Gummy (disambiguation)
- Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand
- Gumball (disambiguation)
- Gumshoe (disambiguation)
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