Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

superbeam

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: su-per-beam
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A very large or powerful beam (in any sense).

Example Sentences

"Superbeams are thus a technological extrapolation of conventional beams, with a proton beam intensity close to the mechanical stability limit of the target at a typical thermal power of 0.7 MW to MW."
"This would be the first example of "superbeam", that is an LBL accelerator experiment that will use v beams of very high intensities, never reached before."
"Alternatively, having detectors at two different on-axis distances from the same superbeam can provide multiple measurements that help to remove parameter degeneracies."

Etymology

From super- + beam.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: super

Inflected Forms

superbeams (plural)

Questions

What does superbeam mean?: A very large or powerful beam (in any sense).
Where does superbeam come from?: From super- + beam.

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