beam: vt. [from Star Trek Classic's "Beam me up, Scotty!"] 1.
To transfer softcopy of a file electronically; most often in
combining forms such as `beam me a copy' or `beam that over to his
site'. 2. Palm Pilot users very commonly use this term for the act
of exchanging bits via the infrared links on their machines (this
term seams to have originated with the ill-fated Newton Message
Pad). Compare blast, snarf, BLT.
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