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maser
English
Pronunciation
- (GenAm) IPA(key): /?me?z?/
- Rhymes: -e?z?(r)
Etymology 1
From MASER, an acronym for "Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation".
Noun
maser (plural masers)
- (physics) a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems
- (astronomy) Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method
Derived terms
Related terms
- laser
Translations
Etymology 2
See mazer.
Noun
maser (countable and uncountable, plural masers)
- Obsolete spelling of mazer
Anagrams
- Mares, Marse, mares, marse, mears, rames, reams, smear
Finnish
Alternative forms
- maseri
Etymology
From English maser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m??ser/, [?m??s?e?r]
Noun
maser
- maser
Declension
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman macer.
Noun
maser
- Alternative form of macer
Etymology 2
From Old English *maser, *mæser, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz; reinforced by Anglo-Norman mazer.
Alternative forms
- mazer, masere, masour, maserre, mazere, macer, macher, masowyr, mausure, mazre, mazar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?z?r/, /?ma?z??r/
Noun
maser (plural masers)
- A maple bowl or cup, often with metal inlay; a mazer.
- The wood of the maple tree or similar wood.
- (rare, surgery) A artificial bone made of maple to repair skull injuries
- (rare) The maple tree (Acer campestre)
Descendants
- English: mazer
- Scots: maser
References
- “m?s??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
maser
- present of mase
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French masseur
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?se?r/
- Hyphenation: ma?ser
Noun
màs?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- masseur
Declension
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laser
English
Etymology 1
From LASER, acronym of Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Coined by American physicist Gordon Gould in 1957. Originally called an optical maser.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?le?z.?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?le?z?/
- Rhymes: -e?z?(r)
Noun
laser (plural lasers)
- A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
- A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
- A laser printer.
- 2004, PC Mag (volume 23, number 9, 18 May 2004, page 117)
- The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably.
- 2004, PC Mag (volume 23, number 9, 18 May 2004, page 117)
Synonyms
- LASER (acronym of light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation)
- optical maser, optical MASER
Related terms
- antilaser
- lase
- laser beam
- Laserdisc, laser disc, laser disk
- laserless
- laserlike
- laser printer
- maser
- nonlaser
- quantum cascade laser
Translations
See also
- Taser
Verb
laser (third-person singular simple present lasers, present participle lasering, simple past and past participle lasered)
- To cut with a laser
- (sports) To throw with laser-like precision
Etymology 2
From Latin laser.
Alternative forms
- lasar
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?le?s.?(?)/
- Rhymes: -e?s?(r)
- Homophone: lacer
Noun
laser (plural lasers)
- A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
- Such a plant.
Related terms
- laserpicium
- Laserpithium
See also
- silphium, silfium, silphion
Anagrams
- Arels, Lares, Searl, arles, arsle, earls, lares, lears, rales, reals, saler, seral
Basque
Noun
laser inan
- laser
Declension
Cebuano
Etymology
From English laser.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: la?ser
Noun
laser
- a device that produces laser
- a laser beam
Czech
Noun
laser m
- laser (source of light)
Derived terms
- laserový
Danish
Etymology 1
From English laser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?js?r/, [?l???s?] or IPA(key): /la?s?r/, [?læ?s?]
Noun
laser c (singular definite laseren, plural indefinite lasere)
- laser [from 1964]
Inflection
Etymology 2
See las (“rag, shred”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la?s?r/, [?læ?s?]
Noun
laser c
- indefinite plural of las
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English laser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?le?.z?r/
- Hyphenation: la?ser
- Rhymes: -e?z?r
- Homophone: lezer
Noun
laser m (plural lasers, diminutive lasertje n)
- laser (monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
- laser (device producing a monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
- Laser (dinghy)
Derived terms
- laserpen
- laserpistool
- laserpointer
- laserprinter
- laserstraal
Finnish
Alternative forms
- laaser, laaseri, laseri
Etymology
From English laser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?(?)ser/, [?l?(?)s?e?r]
- IPA(key): /?l?(?)seri/, [?l?(?)s?e?ri]
- Rhymes: -?ser, -??ser (pronunciation 1)
- Rhymes: -?seri, -??seri (pronunciation 2)
- Syllabification: la?ser
Noun
laser
- laser
Declension
Anagrams
- resla
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.z??/
Etymology 1
From Latin laser
Noun
laser m (plural lasers)
- laser (umbelliferous plant)
Etymology 2
From English laser
Noun
laser m (plural lasers)
- (physics) laser
Derived terms
- sabre laser
Italian
Etymology
From English laser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la.zer/
Noun
laser m (plural laser)
- (physics) laser
Derived terms
- spada laser
Latin
Alternative forms
- l?sar
Noun
l?ser n (genitive l?seris); third declension
- the juice of the plant laserpitium, asafoetida
- Laser e silphio profluens.
- The flowing juice from the silphium.
- Cuius sucus laser vocatur.
- Whose juice is called the juice of the laserpitium.
- Laser e silphio profluens.
- (botany) the plant laserpitium itself
- Lasaris radix.
- The root of the laserpitium.
- Lasaris radix.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- laser in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English laser
Noun
laser m (definite singular laseren, indefinite plural lasere, definite plural laserne)
- a laser
Derived terms
- laserbehandling
- laserstråle
References
- “laser” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English laser
Noun
laser m (definite singular laseren, indefinite plural laserar, definite plural laserane)
- a laser
Derived terms
- laserbehandling
- laserstråle
References
- “laser” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From English laser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la.s?r/
Noun
laser m inan
- laser
Declension
Derived terms
- laserowy
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- lêiser (uncommon)
Noun
laser m (plural lasers)
- laser (device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lâser/
- Hyphenation: la?ser
Noun
l?ser m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- laser
Declension
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