dictionary definitions for "sam"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:

  sam
  
     <tool> A multi-file screen editor with structural {regular
     expressions}.  Sam runs under the X Window System.
  
     (2000-07-16)
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:

  System Account Manager
  SAM
  
     <cryptography, operating system, security> (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)
  


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