offbeam

Adjective

1. Not onbeam.
   • 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...

   1. Not in line with excited parallel neurofibers.

   2. Not connected to a broadcast signal.

      • 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...
      • I took the car offbeam and turned around, gunning it back toward the city. - 2003, David Brin, Kiln People, →ISBN:
2. Alternative form of off-beam.
   • 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. - 1945, Terry Morris, No Hiding Place, page 145:
   • It is not that we are trying to produce something offbeam that they are not ready for. - 1983, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry., Agricultural Act of 1982:
   • It was her only just-offbeam version of this, wasn't it, that Edith had offered him down in Ushuaia? - 2005, Rosie Thomas, Sun at Midnight, →ISBN, page 462: