offbeam
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not onbeam.
adj
Not onbeam.
adj
Alternative form of off-beam.
Example Sentences
- "A Diagram of neuronal circuitry and positions of extracellular microelectrodes (EME) for recording from stellate ceils ($7), intracellular microelectrodes (IME) for recording from Purkinje cells (PC), two local stimulating electrodes (LSE 1 and LSE 2) for stimulating parallel fibers (PF), offbeam and onbeam respectively."
- "The first category ensures that the antenna sidelobe patterns are held to close tolerances to limit offbeam power densities and that the frequencies are chosen with due regard to the positions and levels of intermodulation products."
- "I took the car offbeam and turned around, gunning it back toward the city."
- "We have an Italian fellow in our outfit, who fought for Mussolini in the Ethiopian war. Obviously, to anyone but the examining board, that is, he's offbeam."
- "It is not that we are trying to produce something offbeam that they are not ready for."
- "It was her only just-offbeam version of this, wasn't it, that Edith had offered him down in Ushuaia?"
Etymology
From off- + beam.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: off