laser
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From LASER, acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Coined by American physicist Gordon Gould in 1957. Originally called an optical maser.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
laser (countable and uncountable, 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 May 18, PC Mag, volume 23, number 9, page 117:
- The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably.
- (uncountable, medicine) Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
- I've still got a few more sessions of laser to get rid of the rest of my facial hair.
Synonyms edit
- LASER (acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)
- optical maser, optical MASER
Derived terms edit
- antilaser
- atom laser
- biolaser
- chemical laser
- CO2 laser
- diodelaser
- endolaser
- excimer laser
- femtolaser
- fiber laser
- gyrolaser
- iraser
- lase
- laserable
- laser beam
- laserbrain
- laser card
- laser cooling
- laser copier
- laser diode
- laser disc
- Laserdisc
- laser disk
- laser eye surgery
- laser focus
- laser-focused
- laser-gun
- laser gun
- lasergun
- laser harp
- laserist
- laserless
- laserlike
- laser-like
- laser pen
- laser-plasma accelerator
- laser pointer
- laser printer
- laserproof
- laserpuncture
- laser rot
- laser surgery
- laser tag
- laser typeset
- laser typesetting
- laserwort
- LASIK
- maser
- microlaser
- MOPA laser
- multilaser
- nanolaser
- Newton's flaming laser sword
- Newton's laser sword
- nonlaser
- quantum cascade laser
- Raman laser
- ring laser
- superlaser
- uvaser
- xaser
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Verb edit
laser (third-person singular simple present lasers, present participle lasering, simple past and past participle lasered)
- (transitive) To cut, destroy or treat with a laser.
- I'm having my eyes lasered to correct my astigmatism.
- (sports, informal, transitive) To throw or kick with laser-like precision.
- 2009 February 2, Dave Perkins, “Steelers tiptoe past Cards”, in Toronto Star[1]:
- None was any more sensational than No.6, a fantastic 27-23 last-gasp win over the Arizona Cardinals, cemented by a brilliant toe-sticking TD catch by Santonio Holmes in the back of the end zone with 35 seconds remaining on a pass lasered by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
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Etymology 2 edit
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Noun edit
laser (plural lasers)
- A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
- Such a plant.
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Basque edit
Noun edit
laser inan
Declension edit
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | laser | laserra | laserrak |
ergative | laserrek | laserrak | laserrek |
dative | laserri | laserrari | laserrei |
genitive | laserren | laserraren | laserren |
comitative | laserrekin | laserrarekin | laserrekin |
causative | laserrengatik | laserrarengatik | laserrengatik |
benefactive | laserrentzat | laserrarentzat | laserrentzat |
instrumental | laserrez | laserraz | laserrez |
inessive | laserretan | laserrean | laserretan |
locative | laserretako | laserreko | laserretako |
allative | laserretara | laserrera | laserretara |
terminative | laserretaraino | laserreraino | laserretaraino |
directive | laserretarantz | laserrerantz | laserretarantz |
destinative | laserretarako | laserrerako | laserretarako |
ablative | laserretatik | laserretik | laserretatik |
partitive | laserrik | — | — |
prolative | lasertzat | — | — |
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: la‧ser
Noun edit
laser
- a device that produces laser
- a laser beam
Chinese edit
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laser
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) laser beam
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) beauty treatment that involves using laser
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Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 激光 Mainland China, Hong Kong, 雷射 Taiwan, Hong Kong, 萊塞 dated in Mainland China | |
Mandarin | Taiwan | 雷射 |
Singapore | 雷射 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 雷射, 激光 |
Hong Kong | 雷射, 激光, laser | |
Hakka | Meixian | 雷射 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 激光 |
Quanzhou | 激光 | |
Zhangzhou | 激光 | |
Tainan | 雷射 | |
Shantou | 激光 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 激光 |
Note | 雷射 is also written 鐳射. |
Czech edit
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laser m inan
- laser (source of light)
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Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
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laser c (singular definite laseren, plural indefinite lasere)
- laser [from 1964]
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Etymology 2 edit
See las (“rag, shred”).
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laser c
- indefinite plural of las
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laser m (plural lasers, diminutive lasertje n)
- laser (monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
- laser (device producing a monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
- Laser (dinghy)
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Finnish edit
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- IPA(key): /ˈlɑ(ː)ser/, [ˈlɑ̝(ː)s̠e̞r]
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑ(ː)seri/, [ˈlɑ̝(ː)s̠e̞ri]
- Rhymes: -ɑser, -ɑːser (pronunciation 1)
- Rhymes: -ɑseri, -ɑːseri (pronunciation 2)
- Syllabification(key): la‧ser
Noun edit
laser
Declension edit
Inflection of laser (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | laser | laserit | ||
genitive | laserin | laserien lasereiden lasereitten | ||
partitive | laseria | lasereita lasereja | ||
illative | laseriin | lasereihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | laser | laserit | ||
accusative | nom. | laser | laserit | |
gen. | laserin | |||
genitive | laserin | laserien lasereiden lasereitten | ||
partitive | laseria | lasereita lasereja | ||
inessive | laserissa | lasereissa | ||
elative | laserista | lasereista | ||
illative | laseriin | lasereihin | ||
adessive | laserilla | lasereilla | ||
ablative | laserilta | lasereilta | ||
allative | laserille | lasereille | ||
essive | laserina | lasereina | ||
translative | laseriksi | lasereiksi | ||
abessive | laseritta | lasereitta | ||
instructive | — | laserein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading edit
- “laser”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
laser m (plural lasers)
- laser (umbelliferous plant)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
laser m (plural lasers)
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Further reading edit
- “laser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology 3 edit
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laser
Italian edit
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laser m (invariable)
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References edit
- ^ laser in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin edit
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Noun edit
lāser n (genitive lāseris); 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.
- (botany) the plant laserpitium itself
- Lasaris radix.
- The root of the laserpitium.
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | lāser | lāsera |
Genitive | lāseris | lāserum |
Dative | lāserī | lāseribus |
Accusative | lāser | lāsera |
Ablative | lāsere | lāseribus |
Vocative | lāser | lāsera |
References edit
- “laser”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
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laser m (definite singular laseren, indefinite plural lasere, definite plural laserne)
- a laser
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- “laser” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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laser m (definite singular laseren, indefinite plural laserar, definite plural laserane)
- a laser
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References edit
- “laser” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
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laser m inan
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Portuguese edit
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laser m (plural lasers)
- laser (device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English laser or French laser.
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laser n (plural lasere)
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Serbo-Croatian edit
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lȁser m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏сер)
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laser c
- a laser (device)
- laser (as a technology)
- a laser (laser beam)
- Synonym: laserstråle
- a Laser (type of dinghy)
Declension edit
Declension of laser | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | laser | lasern | lasrar | lasrarna |
Genitive | lasers | laserns | lasrars | lasrarnas |
Derived terms edit
- laserbehandling (“laser treatment”)
- lasereld (“laser fire”)
- laserpekare (“laser pointer”)
- laserpenna (“laser pen”)
- lasersikte (“laser sight”)
- laserskrivare (“laser printer”)
Related terms edit
- lasra (“to laser”)