Thomson

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Thomson may refer to:

Names

Businesses and organizations

  • SGS-Thomson Microelectronics
    , an electronics manufacturer
  • Various travel subsidiaries of TUI Group:
    • Thomson Airways
      (now TUI Airways), a UK-based airline
    • Thomson Cruises (now Marella Cruises), a UK-based cruise line
    • Thomson Holidays (now
      TUI UK
      ), a UK-based travel company
    • Thomsonfly, a former UK airline, formerly Britannia Airways
  • Thomson Directories, local business search company and publisher of:
  • Thomson Multimedia
    , former name of Technicolor SA, a French multinational corporation
  • Thomson Reuters, Canadian media and information services company
  • Technicolor SA
    , formerly known as Thomson SARL and Thomson Multimedia, a French electronics manufacturer and media services provider
  • Thomson-CSF, former name for the Thales Group
  • Thomsons Online Benefits
    , a UK-based provider of employee benefit programmes
  • L.H. Thomson, manufacturer of aircraft and bicycle parts

Places

  • Thomson (crater), a lunar impact crater in the Mare Ingenii on the far side of the Moon

Australia

Canada

Singapore

United States

Science and technology

  • Joule–Thomson effect, temperature change of a fluid passing through a valve in a thermally insulated system
  • thomson (unit), 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 heating or cooling of a current-carrying conductor in a temperature gradient
  • Thomson's gazelle, a species of gazelle
  • Thomson MO5, MO6, TO7, TO8, microcomputers made by Thomson SA in the 1980s
  • Thomson problem,
  • Thomson scattering, the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle

See also