SAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does SAM mean? 

• SAM (noun)
  The noun SAM has 1 sense:

1. a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target

  Familiarity information: SAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

SAM; surface-to-air missile

Hypernyms ("SAM" is a kind of...):

guided missile (a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "SAM"):

MANPAD (a man-portable surface-to-air missile)

Stinger (a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder)

Holonyms ("SAM" is a part of...):

surface-to-air missile system (the shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft)

 Context examples 

This variation was detected by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite.

(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)

Sam Aylward, sir, of the Hundred of Easebourne and the Rape of Chichester.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sam, stop your confounded pipe, or I shall be after you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

An orally available, small molecule selective and S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) competitive inhibitor of histone methyl transferase EZH2, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Histone Methyl Transferase EZH2 Inhibitor E7438, NCI Thesaurus)

The SAM team organized a different experiment for this weekend to gather more information on what might be a transient plume.

(Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels, NASA)

A small molecule selective and S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) competitive inhibitor of histone-lysine N-methyltransferase EZH2, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase EZH2 Inhibitor GSK2816126, NCI Thesaurus)

Sam is a rare one when he starts on the booze.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Cycloleucine competitively inhibits the enzyme methionine adenosyltransferase, resulting in the inhibition of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) synthesis from methionine and ATP, and subsequent nucleic acid methylation and polyamine production; RNA, and perhaps to a lesser extent, DNA biosyntheses and cell cycle progression are finally disrupted.

(Cycloleucine, NCI Thesaurus)

While the warm water was in the bay, there was a moderately strong La Niña event, and the belt of winds circling Antarctica was closer to the continent rather than farther north — a condition known as the positive phase of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM).

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from release during heating of Martian sediments.

(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)