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Definition of Beam balance
1. Noun. A balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beam Balance
Literary usage of Beam balance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Physics Measurements by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Oscar William Silvey, George William Sherman, David Christie Duncan (1918)
"The beam balance. — One of the most common as well as the most accurate methods
... afforded by the beam balance (Fig. 14). The beam BE' can rotate about a ..."
2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"The beam balance. — A beam balance described by Penfield is another very simple
and quite accurate device for measuring the specific gravity. ..."
3. Analytical Mechanics for Engineers by Fred B. Seely, Newton Edward Ensign (1921)
"Hence if this variation were large the beam balance could not be used for measuring
a force. Its use, then, is permissible only because the quantity ..."
4. Elements of Mechanics Including Kinematics, Kinetics and Statics: With by Thomas Wallace Wright (1906)
"The beam-balance does not show what the forces on the two bodies are, ... Thus,
at any place, let two bodies be compared by beam- balance and also by ..."
5. A Manual of Physical Measurements by George Vincent Wendell, Willard Lesly Severinghaus (1918)
"EXERCISE 5 THE beam balance Object.—To become acquainted with the theory of the
balance and to obtain practice in its use. General Discussion. ..."
6. Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the by South Kensington Museum (1876)
"beam balance with equal arms, sensibility 1: 200000. ... beam balance, for
educational purposes. Alex. Bernstein and Co., Berlin. ..."
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