(rail transport) A transverse metal beam at each end of a rail vehicle on which buffers, couplings, brake pipes etc. are mounted.

(British spelling, mechanical engineering) A steel beam linking the suspension of two or more adjacent axles of a vehicle with at least two axles, especially on railway locomotive bogies.

plural of equalising beam

(optics) A beam of electromagnetic radiation with high monochromaticity whose amplitude envelope in the transverse plane is given by a Gaussian function.

plural of Gaussian beam

(construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like the letter T.

plural of T-beam

present participle of kick the beam

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kick the beam

simple past tense and past participle of kick the beam