Sam \Sam\, adv. [AS. same. See Same, a.]
   Together. [Obs.] "All in that city sam." --Spenser.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	SAM \SAM\ (s[a^]m), n. [acronym] (Mil.)
   a Surface to Air Missile.
   [PJC]

	

	SAM
    n 1: a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an
         airborne target [syn: surface-to-air missile, SAM]

	

	SAM
       Security Access Manager (MS, Windows, XP)

	

	SAM
       SCSI-3 Architecture Model

	

	SAM
       Security Accounts Manager

	

	SAM
       Sequential Access Method / Mode (SAM, DAM)

	

	SAM
       Sort And Merge

	

	SAM
       Storage Application Model (Seagate)

	

	SAM
       Standard Application Model (XTM)

	

	SAM
       Symantec Anti-virus for Macintosh (Apple)

	

	SAM
       System Activity Monitor

	

	sam

    A multi-file screen editor with structural regular
   expressions.  Sam runs under the X Window System.

   (2000-07-16)

	

	System Account Manager
SAM

    (SAM) A password
   database stored as a registry file in Windows NT and
   Windows 2000.

   The System Account Manager (SAM) database stores users'
   passwords in a hashed format.  Since a hash function is
   one-way, this provides some measure of security for the
   storage of the passwords.  In an attempt to enhance the
   security of the SAM database against offline cracking,
   Microsoft introduced the SYSKEY utility in Windows NT 4.0.

   (2000-07-19)