beam balance

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   a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm

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Questions about beam balance

What does beam balance mean?

beam balance means "a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm".

Is beam balance a common word?

beam balance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.