What is "repellor"

Usage examples of "repellor".

There it came to a sudden stop by shooting its repellor beams sharply forward and easing them back gradually to the vertical, holding the ship floating and motionless.

Patiently I sighted on the hulk of the ship far above us, aiming at the far side of it, at such an angle as would, so far as I could estimate, bring my bullet path through the forward repellor beam.

And until my recent flash of inspiration, no one among them, apparently, had ever thought of the scheme of shooting a rocket into a repellor beam and letting the beam itself hurl it upward into the most vital part of the Han ship.

In the center of the compartment, on a massively braced universal joint mounting, was what I took for the repellor generator.

You on the hilltops, all train on the repellors of the ships to the south.

The giant armored horseshoe crab shifted on its repellors so that various black lenses looked at Mahnmut.