Balken

beam, crossbeam

"Das Dach wird von vier Balken gestützt."

bar (long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart; informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone)

"Ich habe noch vier Balken Akku."

beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value)

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