Beam

Beam may refer to:

Streams of particles or energy

 * Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy
 * Laser beam
 * Radio beam
 * Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles
 * Charged particle beam, 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 beam, a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation
 * Molecular beam, a beam of particles moving at approximately equal velocities

Arts, entertainment and media

 * Anong Beam, Canadian Ojibwe artist and curator
 * Beam (music), 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, 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, an open-world vehicle simulation video game
 * The Beam (fairy tale), the Brothers Grimm tale 149
 * Carl Beam (1943-2005), indigenous Canadian artist

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, 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), 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 structural element that resists lateral loads

Other uses

 * Beam (horse), a racehorse
 * Beam (nautical), 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.