Beam weapon
a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
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a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel. historical examples when all was ship-shape, the mary thomas was lying gallantly over on her side to a beam wind and plunging ahead due south. dutch courage and other stories jack london when they were come out of the cabin […]
- Beam-powered propulsion
noun a cl-ss of propulsion mechanism that beams energy beamed to a sp-cecraft or other machine from a remote power source examples beam-powered propulsion allows sp-ce machines and robots to be recharged from a distance. word origin 1964 usage note also beam-powered technology
- Beam-powered technology
noun see beam-powered propulsion
- Bean
the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus phaseolus. a plant producing such seeds. the pod of such a plant, especially when immature and eaten as a vegetable. any of various other beanlike seeds or plants, as the coffee bean. slang. a person’s head. a coin or a […]
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a small, black aphid, aphis fabae, often found on beans and related plants.