Beam

Beam may refer to:

Streams of particles or energy

• Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy
  • Laser 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

Arts, entertainment and media

• Beam (music), a connection line in musical notation
• Beam, to transport matter using the Transporter in the Star Trek fictional universe
• BEAM, American hip hop artist Tyshane
• 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

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

Other uses

• Beam (nautical), the width of a ship at its widest point
• Beam (structure), a structural element that resists lateral loads
• Beam, Great Torrington, an estate in Devon, England
• Balance beam, or besam, a piece of gymnastics equipment
• The Beam (geological outcrop), in South Hero, Vermont, U.S.

See also

• The Beam (disambiguation)
• 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