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Beam weapon

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• Beam wind

  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 class of propulsion mechanism that beams energy beamed to a spacecraft or other machine from a remote power source Examples Beam-powered propulsion allows space 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

• Beamed

  any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines. Building Trades. a horizontal bearing member, as a joist or lintel. Engineering. a rigid member or structure supported at each end, subject to bending stresses from a direction perpendicular […]

• Beamy

  emitting beams of or as of light; radiant. broad in the beam, as a ship. Zoology. having antlers, as a stag. Historical Examples The winter is over and gone; spring has followed with beamy and shadowy, with flowery and showery flight. Shirley Charlotte Bront He broke Clessammor’s beamy spear in twain; he seized his shining […]

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