laser

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

English

Red, green, and blue lasers

Etymology 1

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

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪz.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (RP) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪzɚ/
Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)

Noun

Laser modules

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

antilaser
CO2 laser
fiber laser
lase
laser beam
laser card
laser copier
laser disk

laser eye surgery
laser focus
laser gun
laser harp
laser pen
laser pointer
laser printer
laser rot

laser tag
laser typeset
laser typesetting
laser-plasma accelerator
laserist
laserless
laserlike
laserproof

laserpuncture
LASIK
maser
MOPA laser
nonlaser
quantum cascade laser

Translations

device producing beam of light

Albanian: lazer m
Arabic: لَيْزِر‎ m (layzir)
Armenian: լազեր (hy) (lazer)
Azerbaijani: lazer
Basque: laser (eu)
Belarusian: ла́зер m (lázjer)
Bengali: লেজার (lejar)
Bulgarian: ла́зер m (lázer)
Burmese: လေဆာ (lehca)
Catalan: làser (ca) m
Cebuano: laser
Chinese:
Cantonese: 激光 (gik¹ gwong¹), 雷射 or 鐳射, 镭射 (leoi⁴ se⁶)
Hakka: 雷射 (lùi-sa)
Mandarin: 激光 (zh) (jīguāng) (chiefly mainland China), 雷射 (zh) or 鐳射／镭射 (zh) (léishè) (chiefly Taiwan)
Min Nan: 雷射 (zh-min-nan) (lûi-siā)
Czech: laser (cs) m
Danish: laser c
Dutch: laser (nl)
Esperanto: lasero
Estonian: laser (et)
Finnish: laser (fi)
French: laser (fr) m
Georgian: ლაზერი (lazeri)
German: Laser (de) m
Greek: λέιζερ (el) (léizer)
Hebrew: לייזר \\ לֵיְזֶר‎ (he) m (léizer)
Hindi: लेज़र (lezar), लेसर (lesar), लाजार (lājār)
Hungarian: lézer (hu)
Icelandic: leysir m, leysigeisli m
Ido: lasero (io)
Indonesian: laser (id)
Italian: laser (it) m
Japanese: レーザー (ja) (rēzā)
Kazakh: лазер (lazer)
Khmer: ឧបករណ៍លេហ្សឺ (u'pa'kɑɑ leizəɨ)
Korean: 레이저 (ko) (reijeo)
Kyrgyz: лазер (ky) (lazer)
Latvian: lāzers m
Lithuanian: lazeris m
Macedonian: ла́сер m (láser)
Malay: laser
Mongolian: лазер (mn) (lazer)
Norman: laseux m
Norwegian: laser m
Persian: لیزر‎ (fa) (leyzer)
Polish: laser (pl) m
Portuguese: laser (pt) m, lêiser (pt) m
Romanian: laser (ro) n
Russian: ла́зер (ru) m (lázer)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ласер m
Roman: laser m
Sinhalese: ලේසර් (lēsar)
Spanish: láser m
Swedish: laser (sv) c
Tajik: лазер (lazer)
Thai: เลเซอร์ (th) (lee-sə̂ə)
Turkish: lazer (tr)
Turkmen: lazer
Ukrainian: ла́зер m (lázer)
Urdu: لیزر‎ (lezar)
Uzbek: lazer (uz)
Vietnamese: la-de (vi), kích quang (激光)
Volapük: laser
Yiddish: לאַזער‎ m (lazer)

laser beam — see laser beam

laser printer — see laser printer

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 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.

Etymology 2

From Latin laser.

Alternative forms

lasar

Pronunciation

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

Noun

laser (plural lasers)

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

Related terms

laserpicium
Laserpithium

Anagrams

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

Basque

Noun

laser inan

laser

Declension

Declension of laser (inanimate, ending in -r)
	indefinite	singular	plural
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

Etymology

From English laser.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: la‧ser

Noun

laser

a device that produces laser
a laser beam

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈlɛjzr̩]

Noun

laser m inan

laser (source of light)

Declension

Declension of laser

	singular	plural
nominative	laser	lasery
genitive	laseru	laserů
dative	laseru	laserům
accusative	laser	lasery
vocative	lasere	lasery
locative	laseru	laserech
instrumental	laserem	lasery

Derived terms

laserový

Danish

Etymology 1

From English laser.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

laser c (singular definite laseren, plural indefinite lasere)

laser [from 1964]

Inflection

Declension of laser

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	laser	laseren	lasere	laserne
genitive	lasers	laserens	laseres	lasernes

Etymology 2

See las (“rag, shred”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /laːsər/, [ˈlæːsɐ]

Noun

laser c

indefinite plural of las

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English laser.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈleː.zər/
Hyphenation: la‧ser
Rhymes: -eːzər
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
laserscanner
laserstraal

Finnish

Alternative forms

laaser, laaseri, laseri

Etymology

From English laser.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

laser

laser

Declension

Inflection of laser (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		laser	laserit
genitive		laserin	laserien lasereiden lasereitten
partitive		laseria	lasereita lasereja
illative		laseriin	lasereihin
		singular	plural
nominative		laser	laserit
accusative	nom.	laser	laserit
accusative	gen.	laserin	laserit
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
instructive		—	laserein
abessive		laseritta	lasereitta
comitative		—	lasereineen

Possessive forms of laser (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	laserini	laserimme
2nd person	laserisi	laserinne
3rd person	laserinsa

Anagrams

resla

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /la.zɛʁ/

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

Verb

laser

(physics) to laser

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English laser.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

laser m (invariable)

(physics) laser

Derived terms

spada laser

References

laser in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Alternative forms

lāsar

Noun

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

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lāser	lāsera
Genitive	lāseris	lāserum
Dative	lāserī	lāseribus
Accusative	lāser	lāsera
Ablative	lāsere	lāseribus
Vocative	lāser	lāsera

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

Borrowed from English laser.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈla.sɛr/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -asɛr
Syllabification: la‧ser

Noun

laser m inan

laser

Declension

Declension of laser

	singular	plural
nominative	laser	lasery
genitive	lasera	laserów
dative	laserowi	laserom
accusative	laser	lasery
instrumental	laserem	laserami
locative	laserze	laserach
vocative	laserze	lasery

Derived terms

laserowy

Portuguese

Alternative forms

lêiser (uncommon)

Noun

laser m (plural lasers)

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

Romanian

Etymology

From English laser or French laser.

Noun

laser n (plural lasere)

laser

Declension

Declension of laser

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) laser	laserul	(niște) lasere	laserele
genitive/dative	(unui) laser	laserului	(unor) lasere	laserelor
vocative	laserule		laserelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lȁser m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏сер)

laser

Declension

Declension of laser

	singular	plural
nominative	laser	laseri
genitive	lasera	lasera
dative	laseru	laserima
accusative	laser	lasere
vocative	laseru	laseri
locative	laseru	laserima
instrumental	laserom	laserima

[1] ser in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

laser

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

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Verb

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

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Basque

Noun

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Cebuano

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Danish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Finnish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Verb

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

References

Latin

Alternative forms

Noun

Declension

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Noun

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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