Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
abeam is an adverb meaning "at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane". It carries one recorded sense.
at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for abeam come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.