Noun | 1. | jam - preserve of crushed fruit |
2. | jam - informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" | |
3. | jam - a dense crowd of people | |
4. | jam - deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems Synonyms: electronic jamming, jamming | |
Verb | 1. | jam - press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" |
2. | jam - push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" | |
3. | jam - crush or bruise; "jam a toe" Synonyms: crush | |
4. | jam - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" Synonyms: block | |
5. | jam - get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed" | |
6. | jam - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" | |
7. | jam - block passage through; "obstruct the path" |
1. | 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. | ||
2. | 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. |