LASER

See also: laser, Laser, láser, làser, läser, Läser, and låser

English

LASER

Noun

LASER (plural LASERs)

1. Acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
   • 1963, Interior Department and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1964: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-Eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5279, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1307:

     The Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Idaho is cooperating in pioneer investigations of the possible use of LASERs in forest fire operation.

Synonyms

• laser (conversion of acronym into noun)
• optical MASER, optical maser

Related terms

• MASER

See also

• GRASER
• PHASER

Anagrams

• Arels, Arles, Lares, Searl, arles, arsle, earls, lares, lears, rales, reals, saler, seral