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beam
  1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
  2. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
  3. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
  4. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
  5. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
  6. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
  7. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
  8. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
  9. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
  10. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
  11. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
  12. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
  13. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
  14. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
  15. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
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  17. Examples:
    1. “The choir loft had been supported by a large beam measuring ten inches by sixteen inches.”
      “The apparatus he devised for these experiments is a mirror reflecting a powerful beam of light from the sun or an electric lamp.”
      “The blond-haired boy bit his lip as a wide beam spread over his face.”
beamer
  1. (cricket) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height.
  2. (chiefly by non-native speakers) A projector.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW car”)
  4. (gymnastics, slang) A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam ("beam").
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I drove my new beamer down the highway and turned heads with its sleek design and powerful engine.”
      “Unsurprisingly, faced with a resolute batsman Gilchrist was not sparing with bouncers or the occasional beamer.”
      “Edmonds wore not one but two bruises, both of the Caribbean sunset kind, one from a bouncer and one from a beamer, both from Patrick Patterson.”
beamstrahlung
  1. (physics) The radiation from one beam of charged particles in a storage ring or linear collider caused by its interaction with the electromagnetic field of the other beam.
beampipe
  1. (physics) The evacuated chamber through which a beam of particles is accelerated in a particle accelerator
beamtime
  1. (physics) time allocated to a researcher for use of a beam of particles from a particular source
beamspace
  1. (mathematics) A beam of particles treated as a mathematical space.
beamtrain
  1. (physics) The connected beams of light in an interferometer or similar device.
beamwidth
  1. The width (or the angle) of a beam of radiation
beampattern
  1. The pattern of radiation in a beam.
beaming
  1. The act of someone or something that beams.
beamlet
  1. A small beam (ray)
beampatterns
  1. plural of beampattern
beamspaces
  1. plural of beamspace
beamtrains
  1. plural of beamtrain
beamwidths
  1. plural of beamwidth
beampipes
  1. plural of beampipe
beamtimes
  1. plural of beamtime
beamings
  1. plural of beaming
beamlets
  1. plural of beamlet
beamers
beams
beames
  1. (archaic) plural of beam
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