noun
- Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems.
- synonyms: electronic jamming, jam
verb
- Press tightly together or cram.
- usage: "The crowd packed the auditorium"
- Push down forcibly.
- usage: "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
- synonyms: jam
- Crush or bruise.
- usage: "jam a toe"
- Interfere with or prevent the reception of signals.
- usage: "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"
- Get stuck and immobilized.
- usage: "the mechanism jammed"
- synonyms: jam
- Crowd or pack to capacity.
- usage: "the theater was jampacked"
- Block passage through.
- usage: "obstruct the path"
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