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balance beam
noun
- a narrow wooden rail about 16 feet (5 meters) long and 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide, set horizontally on upright posts about 4 feet (1.2 meters) from the floor, used for performing feats of balancing and demonstrating gymnastic ability.
- a competitive gymnastic event for women in which such an apparatus is used.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of balance beam1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
A connecting rod worked a balance-beam, which worked the air-pump, feed-pump, and plug-rod for moving the valves.
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A large balance-beam was attached to the pump-rods, near the bottom cross-head.
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Mr. Jump, a director on the mine, pointed out a balance-beam that Mr. Trevithick had put up thirty years before.
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The scales consisted of two tin pans of equal size and weight hung from a balance beam.
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It was evidently a very slim canoe with a balance beam and sails.
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