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Light beam   /laɪt bim/   Listen
Light beam

noun
1.
A column of light (as from a beacon).  Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light.






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"Light beam" Quotes from Famous Books



... colour in the overmost part, and of earth green in the nethermost, and of the air a manner of brown colour, and of water somedeal blue in the middle. And first is red colour, that cometh out of a light beam, that touches the outer part of the roundness of the cloud: then is a middle colour somedeal blue, as the quality asketh, that hath mastery in the vapour, that is in the middle of the cloud. Then the nethermost seemeth a green colour in the nether part of a cloud; there the vapour ...
— Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus • Robert Steele

... light beam remained. Those who inspected it closely have given a clear description of its aspect; but to this day its real nature ...
— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings

... around the drying rack was up a good three inches. Val dumped the chest into the bow with little ceremony and climbed in after it, his wet trousers clinging damply to his legs. Something plate-armored and possessing wicked yellow eyes swam effortlessly through the light beam—a 'gator bound for the Gulf, whether he ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton



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