Word.ws English Dictionary

H-beam

H-beam noun: wide-flange I-beam; (loosely) any I-beam.

Noun

H-beam (plural H-beams)

  1. Wide-flange I-beam; (loosely) any I-beam.

Forms of H-beam

pluralH-beams

Origin of H-beam

Because it is H-shaped in cross section.

Questions about H-beam

What does H-beam mean?
H-beam means wide-flange I-beam; (loosely) any I-beam.
What part of speech is H-beam?
H-beam is a noun.
What is the plural of H-beam?
The plural of H-beam is H-beams.

Words near H-beam in the dictionary

  1. H-2Bs
  2. h-back
  3. h-backs
  4. h-bar
  5. h-bars
  6. H-beam
  7. H-beams
  8. H-bomb
  9. H-bombs
  10. H-cupper
  11. H-cuppers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: H-beam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “H-beam.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/h-beam. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.