a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
"The defense system successfully intercepted the incoming SAM before it could strike the aircraft carrier."
The Sam Maguire Cup awarded to the All-Ireland GAA football winning team.
"The radar system successfully tracked a SAM before it intercepted the incoming aircraft."
surface-to-air missile
Federal narcotics agent.
Initialism of surface-to-air missile.
"The young sam used its sharp claws to tear open the bag and escape."
To assemble.
"The team worked late into the night to sam all the new furniture before the guests arrived."
Half or imperfectly done.
"The sam job was left unfinished because he got distracted halfway through."
Together
"Sam and I will go to the store together."
A diminutive of the male given name Samuel, or rarely of Samson. Also used as a formal given name.
"Scientists used data from SAM to analyze soil samples collected by the Curiosity rover."
Acronym of Sample Analysis at Mars. (a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory on board the Curiosity rover on Mars.)
From Middle English sammen, samnen, from Old English samnian, ġesamnian ("to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean"), from Proto-West Germanic samnōn, from Proto-Germanic samnōną ("to gather"), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- ("one"). Cognate with Dutch zamelen ("to collect"), German sammeln ("to collect, gather"), Swedish samla ("to gather, collect"), Icelandic samna ("to gather, collect"). More at same.