Thomson Islet (Queensland)

Thomson may refer to:

Names

* Thomson (surname), a list of people with this name and a description of its origin
* Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson

Businesses and organizations

* SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, a electronics manufacturer
* Various travel subsidiaries of TUI Group:
** Thomson Airways (now TUI Airways), a UK-based airline
** Thomson Cruises (now Marella Cruises), a UK-based cruise line
** Thomson Holidays (now TUI UK), a UK-based travel company
** Thomsonfly, a former UK airline, formerly Britannia Airways
*Thomson Directories, local business search company and publisher of:
**Thomson Local, the UK business directory
*Thomson Multimedia, former name of Technicolor SA, a French multinational corporation
* Thomson Reuters, Canadian media and information services company
** Thomson Corporation, former name of the company prior to its 2008 merger with Reuters
** Thomson Financial, former business division of Thomson
** Thomson Healthcare, former healthcare division of Thomson
** Thomson Scientific, former research division of Thomson
*Technicolor SA, formerly known as Thomson SARL and Thomson Multimedia, a French electronics manufacturer and media services provider
*Thomson-CSF, former name for the Thales Group
*Thomsons Online Benefits, a UK-based provider of employee benefit programmes
*L.H. Thomson, manufacturer of aircraft and bicycle parts

Places

* Thomson (crater), a lunar impact crater in the Mare Ingenii on the far side of the Moon

Australia
*Thomson Dam
*Thomson River (Queensland)
*Thomson River (Victoria)
*Thomson, Victoria a suburb of Geelong

Canada
*David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute, a high school located in Toronto, Ontario

Singapore
*Thomson, Singapore, a neighborhood in Singapore
*Thomson Road, Singapore, a major trunk road
**Thomson MRT Line, a mass transit line

United States
* Thomson, Georgia
* Thomson, Illinois
** Thomson Correctional Center
* Thomson, Minnesota
** Thomson Dam (Minnesota)
* Thomson, New York

Science and technology

*Joule–Thomson effect, temperature change of a fluid passing through a valve in a thermally insulated system
*thomson (unit), a unit for mass-to-charge ratio, symbol: Th
*Thomson structures, synonym for Widmanstätten patterns
*Thomson, abbreviation used to indicate Thomas Thomson (botanist), Thomas Thomson when citing a botanical name
*Thomson cubic, the locus of centers of circumconics of a triangle
*Thomson effect, the heating or cooling of a current-carrying conductor in a temperature gradient
*Thomson's gazelle, a species of gazelle
*Thomson MO5, Thomson MO6, MO6, Thomson TO7, TO7, Thomson TO8, TO8, microcomputers made by Thomson SA in the 1980s
*Thomson problem,
*Thomson scattering, the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle

See also

* Thomson Reservoir (disambiguation)
* Thompson (disambiguation)
* Thomsen
* Thomason (disambiguation)

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