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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jam \Jam\, n. (Mining)
See {Jamb}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jam \Jam\, n. [Per. or Hind. j[=a]mah garment, robe.]
A kind of frock for children.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
jam
n 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}]
v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {mob}, {pack}, {pile}]
2: push forcibly, as of brakes: "The driver jammed the brake
pedal to the floor"
3: crus 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}, {pack}]
7: block passage through "obstruct the path" [syn: {obstruct},
{impede}, {occlude}, {block}, {close up}] [ant: {free}]
8: eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" [syn: {fill
up}, {fill}, {stuff}, {cram}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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)
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