Beam may refer to:
Streams of particles or energy
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Light beam
A light beam or beam of light is a directional projection of light energy radiating from a light source. Sunlight forms a light beam (a sunbeam) when filtered through media such as clouds, foliage, or windows. To artificially produce a lig ...
, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy
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Laser beam
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Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles
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Charged particle beam, a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles
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Cathode ray
Cathode rays or electron beam (e-beam) are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes. If an evacuated glass tube is equipped with two electrodes and a voltage is applied, glass behind the positive electrode is observed to glow, due to el ...
, or electron beam or e-beam, streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes
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X-ray
X-rays (or rarely, ''X-radiation'') are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. In many languages, it is referred to as Röntgen radiation, after the German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered it in 1895 and named it ' ...
beam, a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation
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Molecular beam, a beam of particles moving at approximately equal velocities
Arts, entertainment and media
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Beam (music), a connection line in musical notation
* Beam, to transport matter using the
Transporter
Transporter may refer to:
* Transporter (vehicles), types of vehicles designed to transport items
* Transporter wagon, a railway car designed to carry another railway car
* Volkswagen Transporter, a model of van
* Transporter bridge, a bridge wh ...
in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe
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Beam (rapper), American hip hop artist
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BEAM.TV, an online digital delivery and content management platform
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BEAM Channel 31, a Philippines television network
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Beam (website), later Mixer, a former video game live streaming platform
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BeamNG.drive, an open-world vehicle simulation video game
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''The Beam'' (fairy tale), the Brothers Grimm tale 149
Businesses
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Beam Software, later Krome Studios Melbourne, an Australian video game development studio
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Beam Suntory, a division of Suntory that produces distilled beverages, including Jim Beam
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Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, a telecommunications company in the Philippines
* Beam Energy, an energy provision arrangement of British company
Robin Hood Energy
Robin Hood Energy was a not-for-profit energy company launched in September 2015 by Nottingham City Council as a competitor to the "big six" energy suppliers in the United Kingdom. The company supplied gas and electricity nationally to homes an ...
Science and technology
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BEAM (Erlang virtual machine), a virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform
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BEAM robotics (biology, electronics, aesthetics and mechanics), a style of robotics
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Beam search
In computer science, beam search is a heuristic search algorithm that explores a graph by expanding the most promising node in a limited set. Beam search is an optimization of best-first search that reduces its memory requirements. Best-first sea ...
, a heuristic search algorithm
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Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, an experimental expandable space station module
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Apache Beam
Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream (continuous) processing. Beam Pipelines are defined using one of the provided SDKs and executed in one of ...
, a data processing programming model
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Beam (structure)
A beam is a structural element that primarily resists loads applied laterally to the beam's axis (an element designed to carry primarily axial load would be a strut or column). Its mode of deflection is primarily by bending. The loads applied ...
, a structural element that resists lateral loads
Other uses
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Beam (horse), a racehorse
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Beam (nautical), the width of a ship at its widest point
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Beam, Great Torrington, an estate in Devon, England
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Balance beam, or beam, a piece of gymnastics equipment
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The Beam (geological outcrop), in South Hero, Vermont, U.S.
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Battle of the Beams, a period in World War 2 of air radio navigation countermeasures
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Beam theory, or Euler–Bernoulli beam theory, a means of calculating load-carrying and deflection of structural beams
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Beam antenna, or directional antenna, an antenna which radiates or receives greater power in specific directions
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Bessel beam
A Bessel beam is a wave whose amplitude is described by a Bessel function of the first kind. Electromagnetic, acoustic, gravitational, and matter waves can all be in the form of Bessel beams. A true Bessel beam is non-diffractive. This means ...
, a wave whose amplitude is described by a Bessel function
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Blaster beam, a musical instrument
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Gaussian beam
In optics, a Gaussian beam is a beam of electromagnetic radiation with high monochromaticity whose amplitude envelope in the transverse plane is given by a Gaussian function; this also implies a Gaussian intensity (irradiance) profile. Thi ...
, a beam of electromagnetic radiation whose amplitude is given by a Gaussian function
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Beme (disambiguation)
Beme may refer to:
* Beme (company)
* Beme (app)
* Beme Seed, American psychedelic noise rock band
* Lake Beme, Cameroon
* SS ''Beme'', a list of ships with this name
See also
*Beam (disambiguation)
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