box beam

1. 1.

   a beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section

   Synonymsbox girder

   Broaderbeam

Questions about box beam

What does box beam mean?

box beam means "a beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section".

What is another word for box beam?

Close synonyms include box girder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is box beam a common word?

box beam is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.