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laser
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Word definitions for laser in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1960, acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation," on pattern of 1955 MASER . A corresponding verb, lase , was coined 1962.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
laser \laser\ n. [acronym from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation: ca. 1955.] A device which produces an intense, usually narrow, monochromatic beam of coherent light; called also optical maser . It has various forms, and is used in ...
Usage examples of laser.
MacArthur, the Jevlenese that Shiohin had failed to convince with the laser demonstration, and who was already rising fast in the purple-spiral movement, was a comparative new boy on the scene, having awakened as an ayatollah only in the time since JEVEX was suspended.
The microarray slides are read automatically by laser scanners, and the results, thanks to Bioinformatics, are fed directly into computers armed with appropriate software such that risk and hence cost can be predicted with rapidly advancing speed and accuracy.
Mara, Groce, Esteven, Di and Frencoand Biset, like Hem, holding a laser pistol.
He backhanded the woman and fired again, this time sending a slug along with the laser beam, but Booger Bear had recovered and was moving.
Beams of light shot at the alien from every laser port the comp could bring to bear.
It pioneered the use of semi-conductor-based laser diodes in its high-end copier and printer businesses as well.
As he climbed the dais, Corbal watched him, his gaze like a ruby laser.
Glass may pass a laser beam through, but it tends to diffuse and deregister it, causing it to become more like ordinary light.
The egg-shaped shell was a miniature laser array with a deuterium pellet at the heart of it.
When the lasers fired, their beams heated and compressed the deuterium into a fusion explosion.
On the other side of that wall was the reactor itself, where the energy from the lasers was concentrated on micropellets of deuterium fuel.
Cut off the light that the lasers were pouring into the deuterium fuel pellets and the reactor would shut down.
Netaian fighters trained their targeting lasers on Dickin, then poured energy into his slip-shields.
For a moment longer they stood facing each other-one masked behind the visored helmet, the other faceless except for the muzzle of the laser cannon-before Boba Fett finally gave a slow nod.
Surrounded by the noise and quick glare of laser bolts, he even managed a slight nod of acknowledgment, to show that he had just now realized what Boba Fett had meant when he had told him those few fragments of the deal that had been struck between a bounty hunter and an architect.