jammed
adj.
wedged, pressed, packed, full, crowded, squeezed; stuck, caught; disrupted (as of a radio signal)
jam
v.
crowd, cram together; pack in; become crowded together; become stuck; cause to be stuck; disrupt, block, interfere (as in radio signals); play music in a free and improvisational manner
Jammed
jammed
Adjective
1. filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater"
(synonym) jam-pawncked, packed
(similar) crowded
jam
Noun
1. preserve of crushed fruit
(hypernym) conserve, preserve, conserves, preserves
(hyponym) strawberry jam, strawberry preserves
2. informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
(synonym) fix, hole, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
(hypernym) difficulty
(hyponym) dog's breakfast, dog's dinner
3. a dense crowd of people
(synonym) crush, press
(hypernym) crowd
(hyponym) traffic jam, snarl-up
(derivation) jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
4. deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
(synonym) jamming, electronic jamming
(hypernym) electronic countermeasures, ECM
(hyponym) barrage jamming
(derivation) block
Verb
1. press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
(synonym) throng, mob, pack, pile
(hypernym) crowd, crowd together
2. push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
(hypernym) push, force
3. crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
(synonym) crush
(hypernym) bruise, contuse
4. interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"
(synonym) block
(hypernym) interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
(hyponym) barrage jam
(derivation) jamming, electronic jamming
5. get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
(hypernym) malfunction, misfunction
6. crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
(synonym) jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
(hypernym) stuff
(verb-group) cram
(derivation) crush, press
7. block passage through; "obstruct the path"
(synonym) obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, block, close up
(hypernym) impede, hinder
(hyponym) blockade, block off
Jammed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Jam
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
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.
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)
(c) Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe