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Jam - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Jam : (noun)
1: preserve of crushed fruit
2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix,
hole, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish]
3: a dense crowd of people [syn: crush, press]
4: deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy
for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic
devices or systems [syn: jamming, electronic jamming]
(verb)
1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile]
2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to
the floor"
3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: crush]
4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the
Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this
station" [syn: block]
5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct,
obturate, impede, occlude, block, close up]
[ant: free]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Jam : \Jam\, n. (Mining)
See Jamb.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Jam : \Jam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jammed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Jamming.] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between jambs,
or more likely from the same source as champ See Champ.]
1. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to
squeeze; to wedge in.
The . . . jammed in between two rocks. --De Foe.
2. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a
door. [Colloq.]
3. (Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half
her upper sails are laid aback. --W. C. Russell.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Jam : \Jam\, n.
1. A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the
pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a
jam of logs in a river.
2. An injury caused by jamming. [Colloq.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Jam : \Jam\, n. [Per. or Hind. j[=a]mah garment, robe.]
A kind of frock for children.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Jam : \Jam\, n. [Prob. fr. jam, v.; but cf. also Ar. jamad ice,
jelly, j[=a]mid congealed, jamd congelation, ice.]
A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as,
raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.
Jam nut. See Check nut, under Check.
Jam weld (Forging), a butt weld. See under Butt.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Jam :
John and Martin. An interpreted FORTH-like graphics
language by John Warnock and Martin Newell, Xerox PARC,
1978. JaM was the forerunner of both Interpress and
PostScript. It is mentioned in PostScript Language
reference Manual, Adobe Systems, A-W 1985.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Jam :
A condition on a network where two nodes transmitting
simultaneously detect the collision and continue to transmit
for a certain time (4 to 6 bytes on Ethernet) to ensure that
the collision has been detected by all nodes involved.
(1994-12-12)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Jam |
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