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wind (sailing in the same direction as the wind), a craft is running downwind. A given point of sail (beating, close reach, beam reach, broad reach, and...

Post and beam is a general term for building with heavy timbers. More specific types of post and beam framing are: Timber framing, an ancient traditional...

An ion beam is a type of charged particle beam consisting of ions. Ion beams have many uses in electronics manufacturing (principally ion implantation)...

used to compute broad-beam responses by distributing photons over the cross section of the beam. However, convolution can be used in certain cases to...

A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of...

Beam Therapeutics Inc. is an American biotechnology company conducting research in the field of gene therapies and genome editing. The company is headquartered...

Anong Beam is an Ojibwe artist and curator from M'Chigeeng First Nation, Ontario. Born Anong Migwans Beam, Beam is the daughter of award winning Indigenous...

In medicine, proton therapy, or proton radiotherapy, is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often...

determining the moment at which an aid to navigation is broad on the beam. It is also useful in measuring pairs of relative bearings which can be used...

and French Hales). Broad-leaved white-beam, which was the common name until Devon Whitebeam took over, was used once in 1907. The term Otmast was used...

strength at the wrist; also he was broad in the beam, with a rubicund smile on his cheerful open countenance." He was a good driver of the ball, with a...

ion beam radiation compared to electron radiation, and the mutation spectrum is broader for ion beam radiation compared to gamma ray radiation. The broader...

Joseph Fairchild Beam (December 30, 1954 – December 27, 1988) was an African-American gay rights activist, writer and poet. Beam was born in Philadelphia...

Focused ion beam, also known as FIB, is a technique used particularly in the semiconductor industry, materials science and increasingly in the biological...

bandwidth probe beams) and broadband systems (those with broad bandwidth probe beams). For the former type of spectrometer, the pump beam is a visible wavelength...

measures may use a different factor than e, such as the decadic attenuation coefficient below. The broad-beam attenuation coefficient counts forward-scattered...

emit a broad spectrum of light or emit different wavelengths of light simultaneously. Certain lasers are not single spatial mode and have light beams that...

Electron-beam physical vapor deposition, or EBPVD, is a form of physical vapor deposition in which a target anode is bombarded with an electron beam given...

Blackfriars I was 52–55 feet (16–17 m) long, and 6 meters (20 ft) broad in the beam. The ship was quite flat-bottomed; there was no keel, but "two thick...

beam computed tomography Electron beam texturing Electron beam therapy Electronic benefit transfer Eriochrome Black T, a chemical indicator used in tests...