Beam
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Beam may refer to:
- Beam (structure), a structural element
- Beam (nautical), the most extreme width (or breadth) of a nautical vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the midpoint of its length
Streams of particles or energy
- Bessel beam
- Gaussian beam
- Light beam
- Particle beam
- Charged particle beam
- Cathode ray, or "electron beam"
- Molecular beam
- Charged particle beam
- Beam antenna
Companies and products
- Beam (website), a live streaming video platform now called Mixer
- Beam Software, a computer game developer
- Beam Suntory, a division of Suntory that produces alcoholic beverages
- Jim Beam, a brand of bourbon whiskey produced by Beam Suntory
- BEAM.TV, a global distribution network
- BEAM Channel 31, a free television network in the Philippines
- BeamNG GmBh, a company that develops the BeamNG.drive
Music
- Beam (music), a connection line in musical notation
- Blaster Beam, a musical instrument
Other uses
- Balance beam, a piece of gymnastics equipment
- Beam search, a search algorithm
- Beam, Great Torrington, an estate in Devon, England
- Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, an experimental inflatable space habitat attached to the International Space Station
- BEAM robotics, an automatically moving machine based on analog electronics
- Brain electrical activity mapping, or neuroimaging
- Beam, to transport matter using the transporter in the Star Trek fictional universe
- BEAM (Erlang virtual machine), the virtual machine at the core of the Erlang programming language and runtime environment.
- BEAM, an aggressive chemotherapy regimen involving the use of BCNU (Carmustine), Etoposide, Ara-C (Cytarabine), and Melphalan
See also
- Beam theory, a means of calculating the load-carrying and deflection characteristics of beams
- Battle of the Beams, radio countermeasures used against navigational systems used by the Luftwaffe during World War II
- The Beam (disambiguation)