Thomson may refer to:

Names

Thomson (surname) Thomson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Thom, Thomp, Thompkin, or other diminutive of Thomas (surname), Thomas", itself derived from the Aramaic תום or ''Tôm'', meaning "twin". It is a surname of English, Irish, and Scottish Origin. Th ...

, a list of people with this name and a description of its origin * Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson

Businesses and organizations

* SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, an electronics manufacturer * Various travel subsidiaries of

TUI Group TUI AG (trading as TUI Group) is a German multinational leisure, travel and tourism company; it is the largest such company in the world. TUI is an acronym for ''Touristik Union International'' ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known a ...

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Thomson Airways Thomson may refer to: Names * Thomson (surname), a list of people with this name and a description of its origin * Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson Businesses and organizations * SGS-Thomson ...

(now TUI Airways), a UK-based airline ** Thomson Cruises (now

Marella Cruises Marella Cruises (formerly Thomson Cruises) is a British cruise line operated by TUI UK, offering cruise holidays around Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia. History The company had initially entered the cruise market in 1973, but due to rising fu ...

), a UK-based cruise line **

Thomson Travel Thomson Travel Group plc was a business formed by the Thomson Corporation of Canada, when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998. It was acquired by Preussag AG, an industrial and transport conglomerate, in 2000. The group continu ...

(now

TUI UK TUI AG ( trading as TUI Group) is a German multinational leisure, travel and tourism company; it is the largest such company in the world. TUI is an acronym for ''Touristik Union International'' ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known ...

), a UK-based travel company **

Thomsonfly Thomsonfly Limited was a British charter and scheduled airline. Thomsonfly was the first stage of TUI AG's plans to expand its business within TUI UK prior to September 2007. After TUI UK merged with First Choice Holidays in September 2007, it ...

, a former UK airline, formerly Britannia Airways * Thomson Directories, local business search company and publisher of: ** Thomson Local, the UK business directory *

Thomson Multimedia Vantiva SA (formerly Technicolor SA, Thomson SARL, Thomson SA, and Thomson Multimedia) is a French multinational corporation that provides technology products and services for the communication, media and entertainment industries. Headquarter ...

, former name of Technicolor SA, a French multinational corporation *

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational corporation, multinational content-driven technology Conglomerate (company), conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and maintains its headquarters at 1 ...

, Canadian media and information services company **

Thomson Corporation Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reut ...

, former name of the company prior to its 2008 merger with Reuters **

Thomson Financial Thomson Financial was an arm of the Thomson Corporation, an information provider. When the Thomson Corporation merged with Reuters to form Thomson Reuters in April 2008, Thomson Financial was merged with the business of Reuters to form the Market ...

, former business division of Thomson ** Thomson Healthcare, former healthcare division of Thomson **

Thomson Scientific Thomson Scientific was one of the six (later five) strategic business units of The Thomson Corporation, beginning in 2007, after being separated from Thomson Scientific & Healthcare. Following the merger of Thomson with Reuters Group to form Thom ...

, former research division of Thomson ** Thomson Newspapers, former newspaper division of Thomson, sold in 2000 to various firms including

Gannett Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...

CNHI CNHI, LLC (formerly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.) is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin,

, and

Media General Media General, Inc. was an American media company based in Richmond, Virginia. The company's origins can be traced back to 1887 when Richmond attorney Joseph Bryan acquired ''The Richmond Daily Times'', which later became ''The Richmond Times-D ...

Technicolor SA Vantiva SA (formerly Technicolor SA, Thomson SARL, Thomson SA, and Thomson Multimedia) is a French multinational corporation that provides technology products and services for the communication, media and entertainment industries. Headquarter ...

, formerly known as Thomson SARL and Thomson Multimedia, a French electronics manufacturer and media services provider *

Thomson-CSF Thomson-CSF was a French company that specialized in the development and manufacture of electronics with a heavy focus upon the aerospace and defence sectors of the market. Thomson-CSF was formed in 1968 following the merger of Thomson-Hous ...

, former name for the Thales Group *

Thomsons Online Benefits Darwin Technologies Ltd., known simply as Darwin (formerly Thomsons Online Benefits) is a global benefits management and employee engagement software company that also provides consultancy services related to reward, workplace pensions and employ ...

, a UK-based provider of employee benefit programmes *

L.H. Thomson L.H. Thomson is an American manufacturer of aerospace components and bicycle parts. It has a machine shop in Macon, Georgia. History The company was founded by Loronzo Harold Thomson (Ronnie) and his wife Margaret in 1968, as a small machine s ...

, manufacturer of aircraft and bicycle parts

Places

Thomson (crater) Thomson is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is located within the Mare Ingenii on the Far side (Moon), far side of the Moon. Just to the northeast is the unusual merged crater formation of Van de Graaff (crater), Van de Graaff. On the no ...

, a lunar impact crater in the Mare Ingenii on the far side of the Moon Australia *

Thomson Dam The Thomson Dam is a major Clay core and rockfill embankment dam with a Uncontrolled, Ogee-shaped overflow weir and chute spillway across the Thomson River, located about east of Melbourne in the West Gippsland region of the Australian stat ...

Thomson River (Queensland) The Thomson River is a perennial river that forms part of the Lake Eyre Basin, situated in the central west and western regions of Queensland, Australia. Much of the course of the river comprises a series of narrow channels synonymous with th ...

Thomson River (Victoria) The Thomson River, a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, is located in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. Location and features The Thomson River rises below Newlands at the north western end of the Baw Baw ...

Thomson, Victoria Thomson is a small residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Thomson is triangular in shape and is bounded in the west by Breakwater Road, Carr Street and St Albans Road, in the north by Lomond Terrace, Godfrey and Ensby Streets, and ...

, a suburb of Geelong Canada *

David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute (sometimes called David and Mary Thomson, DMT, DMTCI, Thomson CI or Thomson) is a semestered English-language high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located in the Bendale neighbourhood of the distric ...

, a high school located in Toronto, Ontario Singapore *

Thomson, Singapore Thomson is a relatively narrow area stretching from Novena in the Central Region of Singapore up north till Sembawang. The area is mainly located within the central catchment area where some of Singapore's reservoirs are located, including Ma ...

, a neighborhood in Singapore *

Thomson Road, Singapore Thomson Road is a major trunk road linking Singapore's central business district with the northern suburban areas of the country. The road is one of the longest in Singapore, starting from Novena in the south towards MacRitchie Reservoir, before ...

, a major trunk road **

Thomson–East Coast MRT line The Thomson–East Coast Line (TEL) is a medium-capacity Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line in Singapore. Coloured brown on the rail map, it is fully underground. When fully completed, the sixth line on the country's MR ...

, a mass rapid transit line United States *

Thomson, Georgia Thomson (originally called Slashes) is a city and the county seat of McDuffie County, Georgia, McDuffie County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. The population was 6,814 at the 2020 census. Thomson's nickname is "The Camellia City of ...

* Thomson, Illinois ** Thomson Correctional Center * Thomson, Minnesota **

Thomson Dam (Minnesota) Thomson Dam, also known as the Thomson Hydro Station or Thomson Water Project, is an embankment dam, embankment and gravity dam, concrete gravity dam on the Saint Louis River (Lake Superior tributary), Saint Louis River near the town of Thomson, ...

* Thomson, New York

Science and technology

Joule–Thomson effect In thermodynamics, the Joule–Thomson effect (also known as the Joule–Kelvin effect or Kelvin–Joule effect) describes the temperature change of a Real gas, ''real'' gas or liquid (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is expanding; ty ...

, temperature change of a fluid passing through a valve in a thermally insulated system *

thomson (unit) The thomson (symbol: Th) is a unit that has appeared infrequently in scientific literature relating to the field of mass spectrometry as a unit of mass-to-charge ratio. The unit was proposed by R. Graham Cooks and Alan L. Rockwood naming it in ho ...

, a unit for mass-to-charge ratio, symbol: Th * Thomson structures, synonym for Widmanstätten patterns * Thomson, abbreviation used to indicate Thomas Thomson when citing a botanical name * Thomson cubic, the locus of centers of circumconics of a triangle *

Thomson effect The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa via a thermocouple. A thermoelectric device creates a voltage when there is a different temperature on each side. Conversely, when ...

, the heating or cooling of a current-carrying conductor in a temperature gradient *

Thomson's gazelle Thomson's gazelle (''Eudorcas thomsonii'') is one of the best known species of gazelles. It is named after explorer Joseph Thomson (explorer), Joseph Thomson and is sometimes referred to as a "tommie". It is considered by some to be a subspecies o ...

, a species of gazelle *

Thomson MO5 The Thomson MO5 is a home computer introduced in France in June 1984 to compete against systems such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. It had a release price of 2390 FF. At the same time, Thomson also released the up-market Thomson TO7/70 ...

, MO6, TO7, TO8, microcomputers made by Thomson SA in the 1980s *

Thomson problem The objective of the Thomson problem is to determine the minimum electrostatic potential energy configuration of electrons constrained to the surface of a unit sphere that repel each other with a force given by Coulomb's law. The physicist J. J. ...

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Thomson scattering Thomson scattering is the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle, as described by classical electromagnetism. It is the low-energy limit of Compton scattering: the particle's kinetic energy and photon frequency ...

, the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle

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