Beam
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Beam may refer to:
Streams of particles or energy
- Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy
- Laser beam
- Radio beam
- Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles
- Charged particle beam, a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles
- Cathode ray, or electron beam or e-beam, streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes
- X-ray beam, a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation
- Molecular beam, a beam of particles moving at approximately equal velocities
- Charged particle beam, a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles
Arts, entertainment and media
- Anong Beam, Canadian Ojibwe artist and curator
- Beam (music), a connection line in musical notation
- Beam, to transport matter using the Transporter in the Star Trek fictional universe
- Beam (rapper), American hip hop artist
- BEAM.TV, an online digital delivery and content management platform
- BEAM Channel 31, a Philippines television network
- Beam (website), later Mixer, a former video game live streaming platform
- BeamNG.drive, an open-world vehicle simulation video game
- The Beam (fairy tale), the Brothers Grimm tale 149
- Carl Beam (1943-2005), indigenous Canadian artist
Businesses
- Beam Software, later Krome Studios Melbourne, an Australian video game development studio
- Beam Suntory, a division of Suntory that produces distilled beverages, including Jim Beam
- Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, a telecommunications company in the Philippines
- Beam Energy, an energy provision arrangement of British company Robin Hood Energy
Science and technology
- BEAM (Erlang virtual machine), a virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform
- BEAM robotics (biology, electronics, aesthetics and mechanics), a style of robotics
- Beam search, a heuristic search algorithm
- Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, an experimental expandable space station module
- Apache Beam, a data processing programming model
- Beam (structure), a structural element that resists lateral loads
Other uses
- Beam (horse), a racehorse
- Beam (nautical), the width of a ship at its widest point
- Beam, Great Torrington, an estate in Devon, England
- Balance beam, or beam, a piece of gymnastics equipment
- The Beam (geological outcrop), in South Hero, Vermont, U.S.
See also
- Battle of the Beams, a period in World War 2 of air radio navigation countermeasures
- Beam theory, or Euler–Bernoulli beam theory, a means of calculating load-carrying and deflection of structural beams
- Beam antenna, or directional antenna, an antenna which radiates or receives greater power in specific directions
- Bessel beam, a wave whose amplitude is described by a Bessel function
- Blaster beam, a musical instrument
- Gaussian beam, a beam of electromagnetic radiation whose amplitude is given by a Gaussian function
- Beme (disambiguation)
- "Light The Beam!", a rallying chant used by fans of the Sacramento Kings
Topics referred to by the same term
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