(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics. / (gymnastics) A gymnastics event using the balance beam apparatus.

(science fiction) A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.

(nautical) The ends of the transverse beams of a ship.

The light emitted by a laser. / (baseball) A low, hard-hit or -thrown ball.

(nautical, of a ship) Wide across the hull. / (idiomatic, of a person, especially a female) Wide across the hips, with large buttocks.

(science fiction, transitive) To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.

(usually in the plural) The setting of an automobile's headlights adjusted to brighten a longer distance in front of the car, than when on the normal (low-beam) setting.

An optical device that splits a beam of light in two by reflecting a portion and transmitting the remainder.

(physics) A beam of atoms, ions or subatomic particles that has been accelerated by some device and collimated by magnets and/or electrostatic lenses

(automotive, dated) A headlight setting intended for quiet country roads at night.