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graser

/ˈɡɹeɪz.ə(ɹ)/

graser noun: a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation in the gamma ray wavelength by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems.

Noun

graser (plural grasers)

  1. A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation in the gamma ray wavelength by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems.
    • The Russians are working on the graser. One B. V. Chirkov has published a theoretical study in the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. He thinks a very pure crystal, "pumped" with a powerful source of radiation (such a "hard" X rays), much as a ruby crystal is pumped with...1964 February, Wallace Cloud, “Science newsfront”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 184, number 2, →ISSN, page 29
    • Not lasers. Grasers. Gamma Ray Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.1974 October, Harlan Ellison, “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 47, number 4, page 59
  2. The beam of coherent gamma rays produced by such a device.
    • The graser beam melted through the far wall of the lounge, but luckily beyond that lay only sections of the complex containing the cargo runcibles, and there it finally spent its energy slagging the massive handler robots.2008, Neal Asher, The Line War

Proper noun capitalized: Graser

Graser (plural Grasers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of graser

Noun
pluralgrasers
alternative formgaser
Proper noun
pluralGrasers

Origin of graser

Acronym of Gamma Ray Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

Words that rhyme with graser

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Questions about graser

What does graser mean?
Graser means a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation in the gamma ray wavelength by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems.
What part of speech is graser?
Graser can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce graser?
Graser is pronounced /ˈɡɹeɪz.ə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of graser?
The plural of graser is grasers.

Words near graser in the dictionary

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  2. grapy
  3. GRAS
  4. GRASE
  5. Grasemann
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  8. Grases
  9. Grasia
  10. Grasias
  11. grasive

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