What does LASER mean?

Definitions for LASER
ˈleɪ zərlaser

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. laser, optical masernoun

    an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light

Wikipedia

  1. Laser

    A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. A laser differs from other sources of light in that it emits light which is coherent. Spatial coherence allows a laser to be focused to a tight spot, enabling applications such as laser cutting and lithography. Spatial coherence also allows a laser beam to stay narrow over great distances (collimation), enabling applications such as laser pointers and lidar. Lasers can also have high temporal coherence, which allows them to emit light with a very narrow spectrum. Alternatively, temporal coherence can be used to produce ultrashort pulses of light with a broad spectrum but durations as short as a femtosecond. Lasers are used in optical disc drives, laser printers, barcode scanners, DNA sequencing instruments, fiber-optic, semiconducting chip manufacturing (photolithography), and free-space optical communication, laser surgery and skin treatments, cutting and welding materials, military and law enforcement devices for marking targets and measuring range and speed, and in laser lighting displays for entertainment. Semiconductor lasers in the blue to near-UV have also been used in place of light-emitting diodes (LED's) to excite fluorescence as a white light source. This permits a much smaller emitting area due to the much greater radiance of a laser and avoids the droop suffered by LED's; such devices are already used in some car headlamps.

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  1. laser

    A laser is an electronic device that generates a highly concentrated, amplified beam of light using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The term laser is an acronym for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation". Lasers can come in many different sizes and different types are used in numerous applications in fields such as science, industry, medicine, and consumer electronics. The beam produced by a laser is extremely focused, allowing it to be used for precise and high-intensity tasks.

Wikidata

  1. Laser

    A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The term "laser" originated as an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Lasers differ from other sources of light because they emit light coherently. Its spatial coherence allows a laser to be focused to a tight spot, and this enables applications like laser cutting and laser lithography. Its spatial coherence also keeps a laser beam collimated over long distances, and this enables laser pointers to work. Laser also have high temporal coherence which allows them to have a very narrow spectrum, i.e., they only emit a single color of light. Their temporal coherence also allows them to emit pulses of light that only last a femtosecond. Lasers have many important applications. They are used in common consumer devices such as DVD players, laser printers, and barcode scanners. They are used in medicine for laser surgery and various skin treatments, and in industry for cutting and welding materials. They are used in military and law enforcement devices for marking targets and measuring range and speed. Laser lighting displays use laser light as an entertainment medium. Lasers also have many important applications in scientific research.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Laser

    lā′ser, n. a gum-resin from North Africa, esteemed by the ancients as a deobstruent and diuretic. [L. laser, juice of laserpitium.]

Editors Contribution

  1. Laser

    The Internet: The Internet is a global communication system for transmitting data across different types of media. It can be described as a global network that connects different networks, whether they are private, public, commercial, academic, or government networks, using wireless technologies or optical fibers. The computer uses the control protocol Transmission / Internet Protocol., which provides it with a host that enables it to access the Internet, and the Internet has raised the standards of regular networks to global standards.


    Submitted by anonymous on August 31, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LASER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Laser is ranked #31033 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Laser surname appeared 748 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Laser.

    93.7% or 701 total occurrences were White.
    4% or 30 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.8% or 6 total occurrences were Black.
    0.8% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'LASER' in Nouns Frequency: #2593

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Anagrams for LASER »

  1. arles

  2. seral

  3. arsle

  4. slare

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of LASER in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of LASER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of LASER in a Sentence

  1. Robert Andrews:

    Gymnastics probably more than any other sport ... requires laser, pinpoint focus, being a global presence, the greatest of all time, all that starts creating interference.

  2. Professor Wolf:

    We did it on a laboratory scale, we can already create clouds, but not on a macroscopic scale, so you don't see a big cloud coming out because the laser is not powerful enough and because of a lot of technical parameters that we can't yet control.

  3. Jackie Stewart:

    She could take down 26 racing cars on the same track at the same time on one single stopwatch. As did Betty Hill, Pat Surtees, Bruce McLaren’s wife, Jochen Rindt’s Bruce McLaren wife, it was Nora Tyrrell and Helen Stewart timing for the whole team, but at the same time in the race doing a lap chart for 26 cars. Here’s the sharpness, a laser brain... and then suddenly not remembering the most simple thing.

  4. Dr Homer:

    It's difficult to work out a way to injure someone with this laser because the energy is so low.

  5. Representative John Ratcliffe:

    If confirmed, the intelligence community will be laser focused on getting all the answers that we can regarding how this happened.

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