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pencil beam
noun
- a cone-shaped radar beam.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pencil beam1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
A thin pencil-beam of light stabbed outward from behind the nearer building.
From Project Gutenberg
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