What is "phenom"

shortened form of phenomenon, U.S. baseball slang, first recorded 1890.

n. 1 Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a young player in sports like baseball, American football, basketball, tennis, and golf 2 One who is hip and fashionable

Phenom was a progressive rock group from Bangalore, India, notable for being one of the first Indian rock groups to release their work under a Creative Commons license . Phenom last performed in concert on July 29, 2006.

Phenom is an American sitcom about a tennis wunderkind that aired on ABC from September 14, 1993 to May 10, 1994. The series stars Angela Goethals, Judith Light, and William Devane.

Phenom may refer to:

• AMD Phenom, the 64-bit AMD desktop processor line based on the K10 microarchitecture
  • Phenom II, a family of AMD's multi-core 45 nm processors using the AMD K10 microarchitecture
• Embraer Phenom 100, a very light jet
• Phenom (electron microscope), a fast electron microscope
• Phenom (rock group), a progressive rock group from Bangalore, India
• "Phenom" (song), a song by American rapper Xzibit
• Phenom (TV series), an American sitcom
• The Phenom, a 2015 sports drama film starring Ethan Hawke
• The Undertaker (born 1965; also "The Phenom"), American professional wrestler
• Vitor Belfort (born 1977; also "The Phenom"), Brazilian mixed martial artist

Phenom is a small, table-top sized Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) originally developed by Philips and FEI and further developed by Phenom-World. The microscope features a combination of optical and electron-optical images; the optical image enables a "Neverlost" function so operators may navigate to any point on the sample. Sample loading takes place in 4 seconds (to obtain the CMOS overview image) and only 30 seconds into the vacuum space via rapid transfer technology (no conventional load lock). The system user interface is controlled with a touch screen No SEM experience is required for users to achieve magnifications of up to 100,000 times with a resolution of down to 15 nm. An optional fully integrated X-ray analysis (EDS) system shows the user in just seconds what the sample is made of.

Phenom is an angel-backed technology company started in Cleveland, Ohio that has raised $728,000 in seed funding. It produces a mobile app by the same name, available for download in the iOS App Store, Phenom's 75,000+ users use the app to talk about the gear that they love and to connect with other athletes around the world. In July 2014 the company made news when it offered to give then free agent LeBron James a 1% stake in the company if he returned to Cleveland to play for the hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. In December 2015, Phenom was accepted into the 16th Batch at 500 Startups, an accelerator started by Dave Mcclure. Upon leaving Cleveland for San Francisco, Phenom CEO, Brian Verne, wrote a controversial response to a piece written by Jumpstart CEO Ray Leach titled "My city just lost a startup to Silicon Valley. Tell me again why that’s a bad thing?" In his response, Brian gave his views on why Cleveland and other midwest communities need to work harder to create an environment that allows startups to grow and succeed.