Beam

Beam may refer to:

Beam (structure), a construction element
Beam (nautical), the most extreme width (or breadth) of a nautical vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length
A narrow, propagating stream of particles or energy:
- Bessel beam
- Gaussian beam
- Light beam
  - Laser beam
- Particle beam
  - Charged particle beam
    - Cathode ray, or "electron beam"
Beam Inc., a NYSE-listed spirits company that produces Jim Beam, a popular brand of Bourbon whiskey, and a variety of other brands
Beam (music), a connection line in musical notation
Balance beam (gymnastics), a piece of gymnastics equipment
BEAM robotics, an automatically moving machine based on analog electronics
Beam search, a search algorithm
Beam Software, a computer game developer
BEAM.TV, a global distribution network
Blaster Beam, a musical instrument
BEAM, an aggressive chemotherapy regimen involving the use of BCNU (Carmustine), Etoposide, Ara-C (Cytarabine), and Melphalan
BEAM, brain electrical activity mapping
BEAM, the virtual machine at the core of the Erlang programming language
Beam, operate the Transporter in the fictional Star Trek series
BEAM, a static analysis program for software

See also