Definition of Beam scale

1. Noun. A portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length.

Exact synonyms: Lever Scale, Steelyard
Generic synonyms: Balance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beam Scale

beakiron
beakirons
beakless
beaklike
beaks
beaky
beal
beam
beam-beam reaction
beam-ends
beam-plasma reaction
beam-wall reaction
beam balance
beam dump
beam of light
beam scale (current term)
beam splitter
beam splitters
beam tree
beam up
beambird
beambirds
beamed
beamed up
beamer
beamers
beames
beamformer
beamformers
beamforming

Literary usage of Beam scale

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1905)
"In the courte of this inspection, one of the girls handed down to the inspector, from a shelf above her, a beam scale which ..."

2. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1907)
"The substantial difference between this practice and the (/) The respondents used the beam scale with the bag under ** 4"42 f^1'- the scoop for trade as and ..."

3. Mechanical Processes: A Practical Treatise on Workshop Appliances and by John Kennedy Barton (1905)
"On the vernier of the sliding jaw there are twenty divisions, spaced so that they cover exactly nineteen divisions on the beam scale, consequently each ..."

4. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1907)
"(a) Weights and measures—Weighing 'machine — beam scale—Paper bag placed under goods scoop—Вас/ removed after each weighing opera- tion ..."

5. Technical Mechanics, Statics and Dynamics by Edward Rose Maurer (1917)
"A beam-scale measures the weight (earth-pull) of a body in terms of the local unit ... A beam-scale will not detect the change in the weight of a body with ..."

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