jams

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

n. sweetened fruit preserve, jelly; state of being crowded together; large number of objects that are crowded together and unable to move freely (as in cars or people); awkward situation

The acronym JAMS may stand for:The Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyThe Journal of the American Musicological SocietyThe JAMS Automatic Man System, an early experiment in recursive-acronym technology.JAMS (alternative dispute resolution), a popular alternative dispute resolution service whose name was formerly an acronym for Judicial Arbitration and Mediation ServiceThe Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, another name for music group The KLF
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JAMS is one of the lines of clothing produced by Jams World.Many baby boomers remember the wildly popular JAMS shorts of the 1960's. JAMS were closely associated with the California and Hawaii surf scenes. The JAMS brand still exists, and has grown into today's Jams World clothing and accessories line.
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The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), The Timelords and other names; the acronym KLF has no "official" meaning but is sometimes interpreted as "Kopyright Liberation Front") were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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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

n. jam, jelly, sweetened fruit preserve

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.

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)