A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention... 18 KB (2,066 words) - 16:37, 2 April 2024 |
The Beacon may refer to: The Beacon (film), a 2009 American horror film "The Beacon" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of the TV series The Beacon (novel)... 2 KB (236 words) - 04:26, 21 June 2023 |
 | Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (redirect from Personal locator beacon) position-indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB) is a type of emergency locator beacon for commercial and recreational boats, a portable, battery-powered radio... 85 KB (10,109 words) - 05:28, 29 April 2024 |
Beacon Pharmaceuticals PLC is a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company that develops generic version of medications. Beacon manufactures more than 200 generic... 5 KB (232 words) - 10:23, 8 March 2024 |
 | A HAWK beacon (high-intensity activated crosswalk beacon) is a traffic control device used to stop road traffic and allow pedestrians to cross safely... 17 KB (1,794 words) - 22:46, 18 March 2024 |
Beacon 23 is an American science fiction psychological thriller television series created by Zak Penn, based on the short story series of the same name... 23 KB (691 words) - 04:35, 5 May 2024 |
specific location. Beacon may also refer to: Beacon (band), an American electronic music group Beacon (Two Door Cinema Club album), 2012 Beacon (Susumu Hirasawa... 4 KB (449 words) - 08:05, 24 February 2024 |
Beacon Academy (formerly Beacon Community College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Crowborough in the English county of... 3 KB (147 words) - 00:00, 3 December 2023 |
 | In navigation, a radio beacon or radiobeacon is a kind of beacon, a device that marks a fixed location and allows direction-finding equipment to find... 12 KB (1,464 words) - 11:42, 15 February 2024 |
Bluetooth beacons are hardware transmitters — a class of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby portable electronic... 20 KB (2,531 words) - 23:20, 25 April 2024 |
 | Beacon is a city located on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 13,769. Beacon... 74 KB (7,077 words) - 01:46, 19 April 2024 |
 | (the Beacon borders the Pheasey area of Great Barr) and to the local secondary school Barr Beacon School. It is historically the site of a beacon where... 5 KB (501 words) - 05:24, 13 October 2023 |
 | as MOD Stafford, Stafford Station or Beacon Barracks is a Ministry of Defence site in Stafford, in England. Beacon Barracks was renamed from RAF Stafford... 5 KB (226 words) - 23:48, 25 February 2024 |
 | Letter beacons are radio transmissions of uncertain origin and unknown purpose, consisting of only a single repeating Morse code letter. They have been... 18 KB (1,894 words) - 06:14, 14 February 2024 |
Beacon Hill may refer to: Beacon Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, a neighbourhood Beacon Hill Park, a park in Victoria, British Columbia Beacon Hill, Saskatchewan... 4 KB (554 words) - 12:21, 4 January 2022 |
 | Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and the hill upon which the Massachusetts State House resides. The term... 53 KB (4,861 words) - 19:53, 29 April 2024 |
A web beacon is a technique used on web pages and email to unobtrusively (usually invisibly) allow checking that a user has accessed some content. Web... 13 KB (1,503 words) - 11:59, 15 April 2024 |
 | The Beacon Way is a long-distance walk of around 40 kilometres (25 mi) through the West Midlands county and Staffordshire, in the Midlands of England.... 2 KB (142 words) - 05:31, 30 November 2021 |
Beacon Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Beacon) is a privately owned full-service teaching hospital located in the Sandyford suburb of Dublin, Ireland. The hospital... 10 KB (812 words) - 11:28, 21 February 2024 |
 | A beacon frame is a type of management frame in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. It contains information about the network. Beacon frames are transmitted periodically;... 7 KB (1,032 words) - 00:27, 26 February 2024 |
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program... 10 KB (792 words) - 01:51, 6 May 2024 |
The Akron Beacon Journal is a morning newspaper in Akron, Ohio, United States. Owned by Gannett, it is the sole daily newspaper in Akron and is distributed... 7 KB (544 words) - 02:06, 5 April 2024 |
Beacon formed part of Facebook's advertisement system that sent data from external websites to Facebook, for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements... 15 KB (1,650 words) - 19:58, 10 April 2024 |
 | Belisha beacon (/bəˈliːʃə/) is a yellow-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black and white striped pole, marking pedestrian crossings of roads in the United... 14 KB (1,603 words) - 14:20, 10 March 2024 |
The Beacon Street Collection is the second studio album by American rock band No Doubt. It was released independently on March 25, 1995, through the band's... 19 KB (1,914 words) - 14:37, 25 March 2024 |
 | Molecular beacons, or molecular beacon probes, are oligonucleotide hybridization probes that can report the presence of specific nucleic acids in homogenous... 6 KB (695 words) - 20:55, 29 January 2024 |
 | An aerodrome beacon, airport beacon, rotating beacon or aeronautical beacon is a beacon installed at an airport or aerodrome to indicate its location to... 5 KB (521 words) - 19:35, 1 March 2024 |
Beacon Theatre may refer to: Beacon Theatre (New York City) Beacon Theatre (Beacon, New York) Beacon Theatre (Boston) Beacon Theatre (Hopewell, Virginia)... 465 bytes (87 words) - 12:05, 7 December 2019 |
 | Worcestershire Beacon, also popularly known as Worcester Beacon, or locally simply as The Beacon, is a hill whose summit at 425 metres (1,394 ft) is the... 15 KB (1,517 words) - 01:02, 22 September 2023 |
The Beacon (later renamed Haunting at the Beacon[citation needed]) is a 2009 American horror/thriller film directed and written by Michael Stokes. The... 2 KB (230 words) - 14:50, 28 April 2024 |