Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

battle of the beams

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables
bat-tle of the beams
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

Inflected Forms

the Battle of the Beams (canonical)

Questions

What does battle of the beams mean?
A period early in World War II when Luftwaffe bombers used a number of increasingly accurate radionavigation systems for night bombing in Britain, which fought back with a variety of increasingly effective means involving jamming and deception signals.

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