low beam

1. 1.

   the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance

   Broaderbeam

Questions about low beam

What does low beam mean?

low beam means "the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance".

Is low beam a common word?

low 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.