Beam may refer to:

Streams of particles or energy

* Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy ** Laser beam * Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles **

Charged particle beam A charged particle beam is a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles that have approximately the same position, kinetic energy (resulting in the same velocity), and direction. The kinetic energies of the particles are much lar ...

, a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles *** Cathode ray, or electron beam or e-beam, streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes ***

X-ray An X-ray, or, much less commonly, X-radiation, is a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 10 picometers to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30&nb ...

beam, a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation **

Molecular beam A molecular beam is produced by allowing a gas at higher pressure to expand through a small orifice into a chamber at lower pressure to form a beam of particles (atoms, free radicals, molecules or ions) moving at approximately equal velocities, with ...

, a beam of particles moving at approximately equal velocities

Arts, entertainment and media

* Beam (music), a connection line in musical notation * Beam, to transport matter using the Transporter in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe *

Beam (rapper) Tyshane Thompson (born 1995), professionally known as Beam (an acronym An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase. Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of words, as in ''NATO'' ...

, American hip hop artist *

BEAM.TV Technicolor Creative Studios UK Limited, doing business as The Mill, is a British VFX production company and creative studio headquartered in London, England, with three offices in the United States (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago), three oth ...

, an online digital delivery and content management platform *

BEAM Channel 31 DWKC-DTV, Channel 31, is a flagship digital television station of Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, Inc. Its head office are located at 3rd floor, Globe Telecom Plaza 1, Pioneer St. cor. Madison St., Mandaluyong City, while its tra ...

, a Philippines television network *

Beam (website) Mixer was an American video game live streaming platform. The service launched on January 5, 2016, as Beam, under the ownership of co-founders Matthew Salsamendi and James Boehm. The service placed an emphasis on interactivity, with low stream la ...

, later Mixer, a former video game live streaming platform * BeamNG.drive, an open-world vehicle simulation video game * ''The Beam'' (fairy tale), the Brothers Grimm tale 149

Businesses

* Beam Software, later Krome Studios Melbourne, an Australian video game development studio * Beam Suntory, a division of Suntory that produces distilled beverages, including Jim Beam *

Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, Inc. (BEAM) is a telecommunications company in the Philippines with primary focus on UHF broadcasting and digital terrestrial television for the convergence of multimedia. It is owned by Bethlehem Ho ...

, a telecommunications company in the Philippines * Beam Energy, an energy provision arrangement of British company

Robin Hood Energy Robin Hood Energy was a not-for-profit energy company launched in September 2015 by Nottingham City Council as a competitor to the "big six" energy suppliers in the United Kingdom. The company supplied gas and electricity nationally to homes an ...

Science and technology

* BEAM (Erlang virtual machine), a virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform * BEAM robotics (biology, electronics, aesthetics and mechanics), a style of robotics * Beam search, a heuristic search algorithm * Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, an experimental expandable space station module * Apache Beam, a data processing programming model *

Beam (structure) A beam is a structural element that primarily resists Structural load, loads applied laterally to the beam's axis (an element designed to carry primarily axial load would be a strut or column). Its mode of Deflection (engineering), deflection is ...

, a structural element that resists lateral loads

Other uses

* Beam (horse), a racehorse *

Beam (nautical) The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point. The maximum beam (BMAX) is the distance between planes passing through the outer extremities of the ship, beam of the hull (BH) only includes permanently fixed parts of the hull, and beam at wa ...

, the width of a ship at its widest point * Beam, Great Torrington, an estate in Devon, England * Balance beam, or beam, a piece of gymnastics equipment * The Beam (geological outcrop), in South Hero, Vermont, U.S.

Streams of particles or energy

Arts, entertainment and media

Businesses

Science and technology

Other uses

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