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pressor beam

n. (context science fiction English) device used to repel other objects.

Usage examples of "pressor beam".

Ardmore nailed him with a pressor beam against the door and again applied momentarily the suction tube, this time to the fellow's midriff.

They turned with leisured dignity, and headed back down the steps, sweeping those who had pressed too close casually out of the way with the pressor beam.

Johnny backed up and tried to get the pressor beam into a blocking position, but Norbert moved faster, lunged forward, his jaws opened, the inner jaws shooting out of his mouth.

The smaller ship maneuvered until a secondary tractor beam, located alongside the pressor beam in the landing craft's pressure chamber, caught hold of the smaller ship.

If a generator of a pressor beam - a miniature drive - were fixed so its powerful thrust tended to deform a Riccardo coil in the opposite direction to the effect of aging, it ought to make the engine rumble for a certain limited further time.

Each of those vessels had one heavy pressor beam, each having the same push as every other, directed inward, toward the cylinder's axis, and backward at an angle of fifteen degrees from the perpendicular line between ship and axis.

It's nice we're down here with a pressor beam instead of up there with a tractor beam.

The pressor beam setup and the ship's shields could be stripped out whole and sold to the best bidder.