SAM

SAM

1. (sports) Abbreviation of Samoa.

SAM

1. (space science, NASA) Acronym of Sample Analysis at Mars. (a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory on board the Curiosity rover on Mars.)

SAM (plural SAMs)

1. (military) Initialism of surface-to-air missile.
2. (nanotechnology) Initialism of self-assembled monolayer.
3. (cardiology) Initialism of systolic anterior motion.
4. (programming) Initialism of single abstract method.
   • 2020, Barry Burd; John Paul Mueller, Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 213:

     A SAM conversion occurs when Java converts the SAM interface into functional code.

• AAM, ASM, SSM

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SAM m pl (genitive SAM)

1. USA (a country in North America); initialism of Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá (“United States of America”)

   Rugadh Bruce Springsteen sna SAM.

   Bruce Springsteen was born in the USA.