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8 definitions found 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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