Beam may refer to:

Streams of particles or energy

Light beam A light beam or beam of light is a directional projection of light energy radiating from a light source. Sunlight forms a light beam (a sunbeam) when filtered through media such as clouds, foliage, or windows. To artificially produce a light ...

, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy **

Laser beam A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The fir ...

Particle beam A particle beam is a stream of charged or neutral particles. In particle accelerators, these particles can move with a velocity close to the speed of light. There is a difference between the creation and control of charged particle beams and ne ...

, a stream of charged or neutral particles ** Charged particle beam, a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles ***

Cathode ray Cathode rays or electron beam (e-beam) are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes. If an evacuated glass tube is equipped with two electrodes and a voltage is applied, glass behind the positive electrode is observed to glow, due to el ...

, 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 beam of particles moving at approximately equal velocities

Arts, entertainment and media

Beam (music) In musical notation, a beam is a horizontal or diagonal line used to connect multiple consecutive notes (and occasionally rests) to indicate rhythmic grouping. Only eighth notes (quavers) or shorter can be beamed. The number of beams is equal ...

, a connection line in musical notation * Beam, to transport matter using the Transporter in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe * Beam (rapper), American hip hop artist *

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

, an online digital delivery and content management platform * BEAM Channel 31, a Philippines television network * Beam (website), later Mixer, a former video game live streaming platform *

BeamNG.drive ''BeamNG.drive'' is a vehicle simulation video game developed and published by Bremen-based video game developer BeamNG GmbH. The game features soft-body physics, which simulates realistic handling and damage to vehicles. The game was initial ...

, an open-world vehicle simulation video game * ''The Beam'' (fairy tale), the Brothers Grimm tale 149

Businesses

Beam Software Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Melbourne House, was an Australian video game development studio founded in 1980 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen and based in Melbourne, Australia. Initially formed to produce books and software to be pub ...

, later Krome Studios Melbourne, an Australian video game development studio *

Beam Suntory Beam Suntory, Inc. is an American-founded, Japanese multinational company that produces alcoholic beverages. It is a subsidiary of Suntory, based in Osaka, Japan. It is the third largest producer of distilled beverages worldwide, behind Diageo ...

, a division of Suntory that produces distilled beverages, including Jim Beam * Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, a telecommunications company in the Philippines * Beam Energy, an energy provision arrangement of British company Robin Hood Energy

Science and technology

BEAM (Erlang virtual machine) BEAM is the virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform (OTP). BEAM is part of the Erlang Run-Time System (ERTS), which compiles Erlang source code into bytecode, which is then executed on the BEAM. BEAM bytecode files have t ...

, a virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform *

BEAM robotics BEAM robotics (from biology, electronics, aesthetics and mechanics) is a style of robotics that primarily uses simple analogue circuits, such as comparators, instead of a microprocessor in order to produce an unusually simple design. While not as ...

(biology, electronics, aesthetics and mechanics), a style of robotics *

Beam search In computer science, beam search is a heuristic search algorithm that explores a graph by expanding the most promising node in a limited set. Beam search is an optimization of best-first search that reduces its memory requirements. Best-first sea ...

, a heuristic search algorithm *

Bigelow Expandable Activity Module The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is an experimental expandable space station module developed by Bigelow Aerospace, under contract to NASA, for testing as a temporary module on the International Space Station (ISS) from 2016 to ...

, an experimental expandable space station module *

Apache Beam Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream (continuous) processing. Beam Pipelines are defined using one of the provided SDKs and executed in one of ...

, a data processing programming model *

Beam (structure) A beam is a structural element that primarily resists 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 is primarily by bending. The loads applied t ...

, a structural element that resists lateral loads

Other uses

Beam (horse) Beam (1924 – 1941) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a juvenile she showed promise by winning one race and finishing third in the Molecomb Stakes. In the following year she finished fourth in the 1000 Guineas and won th ...

, a racehorse * Beam (nautical), the width of a ship at its widest point *

Beam, Great Torrington Beam is an historic estate in the parish of Great Torrington, Devon, England. Beam House is situated about 1 1/2 miles north-west and downstream of that town, on the right-bank of the River Torridge. Both the Rolle Canal and the railway crossed ...

, an estate in Devon, England *

Balance beam The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. Both the apparatus and the event are sometimes simply referred to as "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring i ...

, or beam, a piece of gymnastics equipment *

The Beam (geological outcrop) The Beam is a geological outcrop on US Route 2 in South Hero, Vermont that is well known for its display of small-scale thrust faults originating from the Taconic Orogeny. The Beam is frequently visited by geology students studying the geology of ...

, in South Hero, Vermont, U.S.

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