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The word beacon can refer to several things: * Beacon, traditionally a fire lit on a hill to attract attention * Electric beacon, a type of beacon used with direction-finding equipment to find one's relative location * Aerodrome beacon, a lighting device which indicates the location of a civilian airport * Distress radiobeacon, a tracking transmitter that aids in the detection and location of boats, aircraft, and/or persons in distress * Beacon mode service, a simple signal that some space probes use to indicate their status * Web beacon, an object used to track a user's visit to a web page * Belisha beacon, a flashing light atop a black-and-white pole placed at pedestrian crossings * Beacon (Facebook), a part of Facebook's Ads system that collects and publishes activities of its users from external websites * Beacon frame, one of the management frames in wireless local-area networks (WLANs) based on IEEE 802.11 * Beacon (supercomputer), an Appro International, Inc. Xtreme-X Supercomputer named Beacon, deployed by NICS of the University of Tennessee, which topped the Green500 list ==Place names== ;Australia * Beacon, Western Australia ;Canada * Beacon Corner, Alberta * Beacon Heights, Edmonton * Beacon Hill, Saskatchewan * Beaconia, Manitoba * Beaconsfield, Quebec ;United Kingdom * Barr Beacon, West Midlands * Beacon, Devon * Beacon End, Essex * The Beacon Way * Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire * The Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales * Dunkery Beacon, Somerset * Ivinghoe Beacon, Buckinghamshire * Worcestershire Beacon ;United States * Beacon, Iowa * Beacon, New York * Beacon Falls, Connecticut * Beacon Mountain, next to Beacon, New York ;Antarctica * Beacon Valley 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beacon (disambiguation)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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