Sam

Fictional characters

Film

• Sam (1967 film), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
• Sam (1986 film), a 1986 documentary film
• Sam (2015 film), a 2015 film directed by Nicholas Brooks

Music

Albums

• Sam (Osvajači album), 1995
• Sam (Škabo album), 2003

Songs

• "Sam" (Olivia Newton-John song), 1977

Television

• Sam (1973 TV series), a 1973 British television drama series
• Sam (1978 TV series), an American crime drama television series

Other uses

• S.A.M., a French comic book created by Richard Marazano and Shang Xiao

Brands and enterprises

• SAM (vehicles), a Greek truck manufacturer
• S.A.M.: Simply About Music, a satellite-driven radio network
• SAM, stock ticker of Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams beer
• SAM Colombia, a Colombian airline
• SAM Records, an American disco/post-disco record company
• Società Aerea Mediterranea, an Italian airline active from 1926 to 1934 and from 1959 to 1981

Business terminology

• Serviceable available market, those customers that can actually be reached, out of the total addressable market
• Shared appreciation mortgage
• Social accounting matrix, a matrix representation of the national accounts
• System for Award Management (SAM), U.S. Government supplier database

Biology, chemistry and medicine

• Phytelephas seemannii, known in Cuna as 'sam'
• S-Adenosyl methionine, a common co-substrate involved in methyl group transfers
• SAM, a candidate phylum of bacteria
• SAMtools (for Sequence Alignment Map), a data storage format for DNA sequencing
• Self-assembled monolayer, an organised layer of amphiphilic molecules
• 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
• Spore photoproduct lyase, an enzyme
• Sustained Acoustic Medicine, a medical procedure to reduce chronic pain and accelerate healing

Physics and astronomy

• Southern Annular Mode, a mode of atmospheric variability of the southern hemisphere
• Swinging Atwood's machine, a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine
• SAm, in astrophysics, the de Vaucouleurs code for an unbarred one-armed Magellanic spiral galaxy

Software and computing

• SAM (file format) or Sequence Alignment Map, a data format used in bioinformatics.
• Sam (text editor)
• Microsoft Sam, a voice for the screen reader in Windows 2000 and XP
• SAM Broadcaster, an Internet radio broadcasting application
• SAM Coupé, an 8-bit British home computer
• Sequential access memory
• Simple Anonymous Messaging, a protocol specification used in the I2P network layer
• Simulation for Automatic Machinery, two minicomputers
• Software asset management
• Software Automatic Mouth, speech synthesis program
• SAM (Synchronous Address Multiplexer), a chip in some 8-bit computers
• Syriac Abbreviation Mark, a Unicode control character
• SAM*, A semantic association model for corporate and scientific-statistical databases. Stanley Y.W.Su (1983).

Other uses

• Scanning acoustic microscope, a device using focused sound to investigate, measure, or image an object
• Sample Analysis at Mars, an instrument aboard the Curiosity rover on Mars
• Scanning auger microscope, a device to image the surface using auger electron spectroscopy
• Small article monitor, a monitoring device designed to screen small items for radioactive contamination
• Sparse antimagic square, in mathematics
• Stop action magnet, a device used in a pipe organs
• Surface-to-air missile, an anti-aircraft missile