Beacon (disambiguation)

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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.
• Beacon mode service, a simple signal that some space probes use to indicate their status.
• Web beacon, used to track a user's visit of web pages.
• Belisha beacon, a flashing light atop a black-and-white pole placed at pedestrian crossings.
• Beacon (Facebook), a part of Facebook's Ads system that collects and publishes activities of its users from external websites.
• Beacon frame, one of the management frames in IEEE 802.11 based WLANs.
• Beacon (supercomputer), an Appro International, Inc. Xtreme-X Supercomputer named Beacon, deployed by NICS of the University of Tennessee, which tops the current Green500 list.

Place names

Australia

• Beacon, Western Australia

Canada

• Beacon Corner, Alberta
• Beacon Heights, Edmonton
• Beacon Hill, Saskatchewan
• Beaconia, Manitoba
• Beaconsfield, Quebec

United Kingdom

• Barr Beacon, West Midlands
• Beacon, Devon
• Beacon End, Essex
• The Beacon Way
• Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
• The Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales
• Dunkery Beacon, Somerset
• Ivinghoe Beacon, Buckinghamshire
• Worcestershire Beacon

United States

• Beacon, Iowa
• Beacon, New York
• Beacon Falls, Connecticut
• Beacon Mountain, next to Beacon, New York

Antarctica

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

Companies

• 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

Other uses

• The Beacon (disambiguation)
• MV Beacon, a British coaster
• Beacon (comics)
• Beacon (Metro-North station)
• The Beacon School in New York
• Beacon School in England
• Beacons, an album by Ohbijou
• Beacon, a studio album by Northern Irish indie rock band Two Door Cinema Club
• a 6-rowed malting barley variety

See also

• Beacon sandstone, a rock formation found in Antarctica.
• Beacon Supergroup, a rock formation found in Antarctica.
• Beacon Fell (disambiguation)
• Beacon Hill (disambiguation)
• Beacon Island (disambiguation)

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