I-Beam

Related to I-Beam: H beam

I-Beam

dated slang A stock market nickname for IBM. I-Beam is down another 4 points, continuing its downward spiral in the market.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

(I-)beam

(ˈ(ɑɪ)bim)
n. IBM, International Business Machines stock shares. (see also big blue.) How much beam do you own?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • cash market
  • spot market
  • find oneself in the market
  • market day
  • adobe dollar
  • seller
  • seller's market
  • a seller's market
  • put (something) on the market
  • bring your pigs to market
References in periodicals archive
These make it possible to obtain the values of the stress at any point of the cross-section of the I-beam, especially on fillets or places where the bottom flange goes inside to the middle part of the I-beam.
In this section, a closed form solution of the simply supported horizontally composite curved I-beam is obtained.
The bolt shear connectors and epoxy were used to resist the horizontal shear flow at the interface between the HFRP I-beam and the UHPFRC slab.
Relatively few bats (n = 61) were observed roosting in I-beam bridges during daylight hours.
Goldman said a hit-and-run crash at the bridge compromised the I-beam. He
The version practiced in the United States today involves placement of a live evergreen tree and an American flag on an I-beam to celebrate completion of the infrastructure and bestow good luck upon the building and those who inhabit and utilize it.
An I-beam supporting a shed near the wash rack had torn through the airframe on the starboard wing tip.
Rendered using superimposed source photographs of construction and demolition sites, the protagonists of these hard-edged images are I-beam frame works, chain-link fences, concrete barriers, and caution stripes.
It consists of a pair of C-section pieces welded back-to-back at their perimeter to produce an I-beam cross-section.
An iFRAME Column, a strong I-beam that gets bolted vertically to the floor every two feet, forms the backbone of the system.
"A truly non-shreddable object would be something like an 8-inch to 12-inch I-beam--although our large machine actually processed a 12-inch I-beam recently," Ward says of SSI's Pri-Max line.
The showroom's high ceilings have inspired the importer to display its rugs like banners from a steel I-beam structure that is 35 feet square and 17 feet high.
Utah is one of seven medical centers evaluating the Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib, a narrow, titanium I-beam with attachments that grab onto the top and bottom of the child's ribs to allow for straighter spinal growth.
EPA's) Indoor Air Quality Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM) software.
"It is reinforced with I-beam pultrusion to provide durability and strength," Reivik states.