BEAM BALANCE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("beam balance" is a kind of...):

balance (a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beam balance"):

analytical balance; chemical balance (a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis)

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