laser

From LASER, acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Coined by American physicist Gordon Gould in 1957. Originally called an optical maser.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪz.ə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪzɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)

Laser modules

laser (plural lasers)

1. A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
2. A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
3. 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.

• LASER (acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)
• optical maser, optical MASER

• Taser

laser (third-person singular simple present lasers, present participle lasering, simple past and past participle lasered)

1. To cut with a laser.
2. (sports) To throw or kick with laser-like precision.
   • 2009 February 2, Dave Perkins, “Steelers tiptoe past Cards”, in Toronto Star‎:

     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.

From Latin laser.

• lasar

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪs.ə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
• Homophone: lacer

laser (plural lasers)

1. A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
2. Such a plant.

• laserpicium
• Laserpithium

• silphium, silfium, silphion

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

laser inan

1. laser

From English laser.

• Hyphenation: la‧ser

laser

1. a device that produces laser
2. a laser beam

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛjzr̩]

laser m inan

1. laser (source of light)

• laserový

• laser in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• laser in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From English laser.

• IPA^(key): /lɛjsər/, [ˈlɛɪ̯sɐ] or IPA^(key): /laːsər/, [ˈlæːsɐ]

laser c (singular definite laseren, plural indefinite lasere)

1. laser [from 1964]

See las (“rag, shred”).

• IPA^(key): /laːsər/, [ˈlæːsɐ]

laser c

1. indefinite plural of las

Borrowed from English laser.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː.zər/
• Hyphenation: la‧ser
• Rhymes: -eːzər
• Homophone: lezer

laser m (plural lasers, diminutive lasertje n)

1. laser (monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
2. laser (device producing a monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
3. Laser (dinghy)

• laserpen
• laserpistool
• laserpointer
• laserprinter
• laserscanner
• laserstraal

• laaser, laaseri, laseri

From English laser.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ(ː)ser/, [ˈlɑ(ː)s̠e̞r]
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ(ː)seri/, [ˈlɑ(ː)s̠e̞ri]
• Rhymes: -ɑser, -ɑːser (pronunciation 1)
• Rhymes: -ɑseri, -ɑːseri (pronunciation 2)
• Syllabification^(key): la‧ser

laser

1. laser

• resla

• IPA^(key): /la.zɛʁ/

From Latin laser.

laser m (plural lasers)

1. laser (umbelliferous plant)

From English laser.

laser m (plural lasers)

1. (physics) laser

• sabre laser

• “laser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

laser

1. (physics) to laser

Borrowed from English laser.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.zer/[1]
• Rhymes: -azer
• Hyphenation: là‧ser

laser m (invariable)

1. (physics) laser

• spada laser

• lāsar

lāser n (genitive lāseris); third declension

1. 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.

2. (botany) the plant laserpitium itself

   Lasaris radix.

   The root of the laserpitium.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “laser”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From English laser.

laser m (definite singular laseren, indefinite plural lasere, definite plural laserne)

1. a laser

• laserbehandling
• laserstråle

• “laser” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English laser.

laser m (definite singular laseren, indefinite plural laserar, definite plural laserane)

1. a laser

• laserbehandling
• laserstråle

• “laser” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English laser.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.sɛr/

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• Rhymes: -asɛr
• Syllabification: la‧ser

laser m inan

1. laser

• laser in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• laser in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• lêiser (uncommon)

laser m (plural lasers)

1. laser (device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light)

From English laser or French laser.

laser n (plural lasere)

1. laser

• IPA^(key): /lâser/
• Hyphenation: la‧ser

lȁser m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏сер)

1. laser