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

Byron Leftwich, a freshman wide receiver hopeful, rifled another laser beam.

From Washington Post

A tweet can get from New York to Tokyo in less than a fifth of a second, but an even faster laser beam traveling at nature’s top speed takes more than a second to reach the moon.

From Popular-Science

As a result, the distances traveled by the laser beams would change, and the waves would fail to cancel each other out.

From MIT Technology Review

The researchers used a laser beam as their barrier and turned on a magnetic field inside it.

From Quanta Magazine

Each craft was armed with essentially a laser beam that simulated the use of machine guns.

From Fortune

Second, focus like a laser beam on the struggling Middle Class again.

From The Daily Beast

Al Qaeda has been focused like a laser beam on Pakistan for the last decade.

From The Daily Beast

That's why Clinton promised he was going to "focus on the economy like a laser beam."

From The Daily Beast

A laser-beam communication system was installed, so that Sol could keep in contact with the ship all the way to Centaurus.

From Project Gutenberg