Beacon (disambiguation)

The word beacon can refer to several things:

Beacon, traditionally a fire lit on a hill to attract attention.
Electric beacon, a type of beacon used with direction finding equipment to find one's relative location
Aerodrome beacon, a lighting device which indicates the location of a civilian airport
Distress radiobeacon, a tracking transmitter that aids in the detection and location of boats, aircraft, and/or persons in distress
Web beacon, used to track a user's visit of web pages
Beacon (Facebook), a part of Facebook's Ads system that collects and publishes activities of its users from external websites

Place names

Beacon Valley, the location of the oldest ice in the world, at about 4 million years

Beacon Communications (publisher), a publisher of weekly newspapers in Rhode Island
Beacon Communications Corporation, a defunct newspaper publisher in Massachusetts
Beacon Pictures, formerly Beacon Communications, an American film production company
Beacon, a discount gas station brand owned by Valero Energy Corporation

The Beacon, student-run newspaper of Florida International University
The Beacon (The Twilight Zone), the first segment of the eleventh episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone
The Beacon (novel), a novel by Susan Hill
MV Beacon, a British coaster
Beacon (comics)
Beacon (Metro-North station)
The Beacon School in New York
Beacon School in England
Beacons (album), an album by Ohbijou