laser beam

noun

1. a beam of radiation produced from a laser, used in surgery, communications, weapons systems, printing, recording and various industrial processes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of laser beam¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Those of you who enjoy shooting laser beams at your friends for sport can bamboozle your opponents by crying out, “Here comes my Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation!” just before you fire.

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These bleeps sound alive and then suddenly, there is life: hundreds of pleasure-seekers stomping in the sand as laser beams outline alien towers over these orange cliffs.

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Easy enough - except our celebrities had to navigate through a fiendish array of red laser beams, all pointing at awkward angles, meaning the most nimble had the easiest time of it.

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“They focus like a laser beam on me,” says Epstein, of Napa Valley, Calif.

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The Hunter's Return is a vast canvas depicting a war zone, with toppled trees and craters lit up by a fiery sky, and with green military laser beams emerging from the smoke.

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