pencil beam
noun
a cone-shaped radar beam.
Origin of pencil beam
1First 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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