Thomson may refer to:
Names
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Thomson (surname)
Thomson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Thom, Thomp, Thompkin, or other diminutive of Thomas (surname), Thomas", itself derived from the Aramaic תום or ''Tôm'', meaning "twin". It is a surname of English, Irish, and Scottish Origin. Th ...
, a list of people with this name and a description of its origin
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Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson
Businesses and organizations
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SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, an electronics manufacturer
* Various travel subsidiaries of
TUI Group:
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Thomson Airways (now TUI Airways), a UK-based airline
** Thomson Cruises (now
Marella Cruises), a UK-based cruise line
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Thomson Travel
Thomson Travel Group plc was a business formed by the Thomson Corporation of Canada, when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998. It was acquired by Preussag AG, an industrial and transport conglomerate, in 2000. The group continu ...
(now
TUI UK), a UK-based travel company
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Thomsonfly
Thomsonfly Limited was a British charter and scheduled airline. Thomsonfly was the first stage of TUI AG's plans to expand its business within TUI UK prior to September 2007. After TUI UK merged with First Choice Holidays in September 2007, it ...
, a former UK airline, formerly Britannia Airways
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Thomson Directories, local business search company and publisher of:
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Thomson Local, the UK business directory
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Thomson Multimedia, former name of Technicolor SA, a French multinational corporation
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Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational corporation, multinational content-driven technology Conglomerate (company), conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and maintains its headquarters at 1 ...
, Canadian media and information services company
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Thomson Corporation
Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reut ...
, former name of the company prior to its 2008 merger with Reuters
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Thomson Financial, former business division of Thomson
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Thomson Healthcare, former healthcare division of Thomson
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Thomson Scientific
Thomson Scientific was one of the six (later five) strategic business units of The Thomson Corporation, beginning in 2007, after being separated from Thomson Scientific & Healthcare. Following the merger of Thomson with Reuters Group to form Thom ...
, former research division of Thomson
** Thomson Newspapers, former newspaper division of Thomson, sold in 2000 to various firms including
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation.
It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...
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CNHI
CNHI, LLC (formerly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.) is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin, , and
Media General
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Technicolor SA
Vantiva SA (formerly Technicolor SA, Thomson SARL, Thomson SA, and Thomson Multimedia) is a French multinational corporation that provides technology products and services for the communication, media and entertainment industries. Headquarter ...
, formerly known as Thomson SARL and Thomson Multimedia, a French electronics manufacturer and media services provider
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Thomson-CSF
Thomson-CSF was a French company that specialized in the development and manufacture of electronics with a heavy focus upon the aerospace and defence sectors of the market.
Thomson-CSF was formed in 1968 following the merger of Thomson-Hous ...
, former name for the Thales Group
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Thomsons Online Benefits, a UK-based provider of employee benefit programmes
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L.H. Thomson, manufacturer of aircraft and bicycle parts
Places
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Thomson (crater), a lunar impact crater in the Mare Ingenii on the far side of the Moon
Australia
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Thomson Dam
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Thomson River (Queensland)
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Thomson River (Victoria)
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Thomson, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong
Canada
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David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute
David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute (sometimes called David and Mary Thomson, DMT, DMTCI, Thomson CI or Thomson) is a semestered English-language high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located in the Bendale neighbourhood of the distric ...
, a high school located in Toronto, Ontario
Singapore
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Thomson, Singapore
Thomson is a relatively narrow area stretching from Novena in the Central Region of Singapore up north till Sembawang. The area is mainly located within the central catchment area where some of Singapore's reservoirs are located, including Ma ...
, a neighborhood in Singapore
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Thomson Road, Singapore
Thomson Road is a major trunk road linking Singapore's central business district with the northern suburban areas of the country. The road is one of the longest in Singapore, starting from Novena in the south towards MacRitchie Reservoir, before ...
, a major trunk road
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Thomson–East Coast MRT line
The Thomson–East Coast Line (TEL) is a medium-capacity Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line in Singapore. Coloured brown on the rail map, it is fully underground. When fully completed, the sixth line on the country's MR ...
, a mass rapid transit line
United States
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Thomson, Georgia
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Thomson, Illinois
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Thomson Correctional Center
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Thomson, Minnesota
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Thomson Dam (Minnesota)
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Thomson, New York
Science and technology
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Joule–Thomson effect
In thermodynamics, the Joule–Thomson effect (also known as the Joule–Kelvin effect or Kelvin–Joule effect) describes the temperature change of a Real gas, ''real'' gas or liquid (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is expanding; ty ...
, temperature change of a fluid passing through a valve in a thermally insulated system
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thomson (unit), a unit for mass-to-charge ratio, symbol: Th
* Thomson structures, synonym for
Widmanstätten patterns
* Thomson, abbreviation used to indicate
Thomas Thomson when citing a botanical name
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Thomson cubic, the locus of centers of circumconics of a triangle
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Thomson effect, the heating or cooling of a current-carrying conductor in a temperature gradient
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Thomson's gazelle
Thomson's gazelle (''Eudorcas thomsonii'') is one of the best known species of gazelles. It is named after explorer Joseph Thomson (explorer), Joseph Thomson and is sometimes referred to as a "tommie". It is considered by some to be a subspecies o ...
, a species of gazelle
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Thomson MO5,
MO6,
TO7,
TO8, microcomputers made by Thomson SA in the 1980s
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Thomson problem
The objective of the Thomson problem is to determine the minimum electrostatic potential energy configuration of electrons constrained to the surface of a unit sphere that repel each other with a force given by Coulomb's law. The physicist J. J. ...
,
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Thomson scattering
Thomson scattering is the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle, as described by classical electromagnetism. It is the low-energy limit of Compton scattering: the particle's kinetic energy and photon frequency ...
, the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle
See also
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Thomson Reservoir (disambiguation)
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Thompson (disambiguation)
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Thomsen
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Thomason (disambiguation)
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