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n. A weapon that fires a beam or pulse of energy instead of a projectile.
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Energy weapon may refer to:
- Directed-energy weapon, a type of military technology
- Energy sword, a fictional type of melee weapon
- Raygun, a fictional type of gun
Usage examples of "energy weapon".
She stood like that for a moment and then, with a quick movement, reached into the bosom of her dress and drew out a gleaming white energy weapon.
The fact was, in a moment he was going to have to take on three armed men, one of them with an energy weapon, and he couldn't put it off much longer.
I pulled on my blacks one cloudy fall morning, smiled brightly, and announced I was off to find a lightweight energy weapon.
Even better, a bolt that passed down the cannon's bore would detonate the shell out of sequence, turning it into a miniature fusion bomb instead of a directed-energy weapon.
I placed Rushomin about twenty meters to the first man's right, found a good place closer to the inlet for Rolman, and then went back for the man with the idiot energy weapon.
What must have been an energy weapon burn traced a thin line up one cheek, and it looked like his nose had been broken.
In this case, however, what had gotten through had obviously been an energy weapon of some sort - probably a laser - rather than a warhead, and the hit had been a grazing one, which had somehow managed to shatter a divot out of the fighters fuselage without taking anything vital with it.
And for that he must get into energy weapon range and blow the heart and brain out of their formation with weapons not limited by the capacity of his magazines.
If he initiated hostilities, they most certainly would, and although Israel was beyond energy weapon range, maximum range for the Fourth Empire's hyper missiles against a target her size was thirty-eight light-minutes.
In this case, however, what had gotten through had obviously been an energy weapon of some sort -- probably a laser -- rather than a warhead, and the hit had been a grazing one, which had somehow managed to shatter a divot out of the fighter's fuselage without taking anything vital with it.
These crazy centaurs didn't have an energy weapon worth shit, but their slug weapons were nasty.
In this case, however, what had gotten through had obviously been an energy weapon of some sort-probably a laser-rather than a warhead, and the hit had been a grazing one, which had somehow managed to shatter a divot out of the fighter's fuselage without taking anything vital with it.