Gum

Gum may refer to:

Types of gum

• Adhesive
• Bubble gum
• Chewing gum
• Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
  • Gum arabic, made from the sap of Acacia senegal, an Old World tree species
  • Gum copal, resin produced from the sap of Daniellia, a genus of Afrotropical forest trees
  • Gum ghatti, made from the sap of Anogeissus latifolia, an Asian tree species
  • Gum guaicum, substance produced from Guaiacum officinale, a neotropical tree species
  • Gum guar, made from the seeds of guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, an Old World annual legume
  • Gum karaya, made from the sap of Sterculia urens, an Asian tree species
  • Spruce gum from the resin of spruce trees
  • Kauri gum, from the fossilized resin of Kauri trees
  • Locust bean gum, made from the seeds of carob, Ceratonia siliqua
  • Xanthan gum, a common food thickener and stabilizer
• Gum base, the provides the basic textural and masticatory properties of chewing and bubble gums
• Gum metal, titanium alloy with high elasticity
• Postage stamp gum, substance applied to the back of a stamp to enable it to adhere to a letter
• Spirit gum, used to affix applications to the body

People

• Gum (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
• Gum Mo-jam, military leader
• Allen Gum (born 1969), American college baseball coach
• Jay Watson (born 1991), a.k.a. GUM, Australian musician

Places

• Guam, ISO-3166 alpha-3 and IOC country code
• Guam International Airport (IATA airport code: GUM)
• Gum (crater), lunar impact crater
• Gum-Gum, township in Malaysia
• Gum Springs, Arkansas
• Gum Wall, a brick wall covered in used chewing gum in Seattle
• White Gum Valley, Western Australia
• The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia

Science

• Gum bichromate, 19th-century photographic printing process
• Gum depigmentation, a procedure used in cosmetic dentistry
• Gum over platinum, a chemical photographic process
• Gums, or gingiva, the soft tissue partly covering teeth
• Genitourinary medicine, deals with reproductive problems

Entertainment

• "The Gum", episode of the comedy television show Seinfield
• Glasgow University Magazine, in Scotland
• Mr. Gum, central character in a series of novels for children by Andy Stanton
• Gum (character), a playable character from the Jet Set Radio video game franchise
• Gum, a character in the British comic Monster Fun
• Great Uncle Matthew, a character in the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
• Gum, a character from the 2016 adult animated film Sausage Party
• Gum Girl, a protagonist The Gumazing Gum Girl! book series by Rhode Montijo

Other uses

• GUM (department store), in Moscow, Russia
• Global United Media, Indian film company
• Gum Air, an airline in Paramaribo, Suriname
• Gum languages of New Guinea
• Gum tree, any of various related species of Eucalypt trees
• Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, known as the GUM, a metrology guide pertaining to measurement uncertainty
• GUM, a business unit of the Sunstar Group which designs and manufactures dental cleaning tools like toothbrushes and gum stimulators

See also

• Gummy (disambiguation)
• Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand
• Gumball (disambiguation)
• Gumshoe (disambiguation)