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Answer for the clue "Amplifier of electromagnetic waves ", 5 letters:
maser

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Etymology 1 n. 1 (context physics English) a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems 2 (context astronomy ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A maser is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves. Maser may also refer to: Astrophysical maser , a naturally occurring source of stimulated spectral line emission Mike Maser , a coach for the Miami Dolphins Maser, Veneto , a municipality ...

Usage examples of maser.

The maser beam swept across him and then there was no pain, nor anything else, forever and ever again, amen.

Denice turned slightly, saw the second man wore a hand maser strapped openly at his thigh.

About three-quarters of the way through the negotiations, when all that was left was the finalization of some details, Henson suddenly stopped talking, sat motionless for just a moment, and then abruptly put his maser in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

A wash of flame exploded outward from the spot where David Castanaveras stood, sent a burning wash of superheated air across the room like a maser set at wide dispersion.

The maser was so old she had been afraid it was going to short out in her hand.

Ministry of Population Control workers, most of them imported from other states to help with the catastrophe, found her sometime in the following week, curled up in the doorway of an abandoned building, clutching the maser like a doll while she slept.

The Japanese man moved with unnatural speed for a human, the medbot saw next, twisted and bounced as far away from the patient as the freight elevator would let him get, pulling his maser free in midbounce, firing as he moved.

A hand maser was passed forward to him, and he sat next to the doorway, listening to the distant firefight.

DOD computer that monitored them, and that system was, like Ring, separated not only from the digital telephone networks, but also from any form of radio, laser, or maser communications.

Malko suspiciously like the laser-resistant cloth combat fatigues were made of, with a hand maser tucked into a pocket and an autoshot resting on her right shoulder, took them up to see Carl.

He was flipping the autoshot over to fire to his right when the wash of maser flame struck the hand.

His maser carbine had picked them off one at a time under the horrified eyes of the Nicholls family.

Powel made a frantic lunge for the maser carbine in the saddle holster.

Salkid take a blackhawk maser out of storage, and be ready to eliminate that observation satellite.

Only five of them actually housed communication equipment, the other two covered maser cannon which provided a short-range defence capability.