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
  • Laser beam
• Particle beam
  • Charged particle beam
    • Cathode ray, or "electron beam"
  • Molecular 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
• BEAM Connect, a Singapore-based technology company

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, the virtual machine at the core of the Erlang programming language
• 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)