pencil beam


noun
  1. a cone-shaped radar beam.

Origin of pencil beam

1
First recorded in 1945–50

Words Nearby pencil beam

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How to use pencil beam in a sentence

  • A thin pencil-beam of light stabbed outward from behind the nearer building.

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