LASER BEAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laser beam mean? 

• LASER BEAM (noun)
  The noun LASER BEAM has 1 sense:

1. a beam of light generated by a laser

  Familiarity information: LASER BEAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LASER BEAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beam of light generated by a laser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("laser beam" is a kind of...):

beam; beam of light; irradiation; light beam; ray; ray of light; shaft; shaft of light (a column of light (as from a beacon))

 Context examples 

A device through which a laser beam emerges.

(Laser Nozzle Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

In the lab, the group used infrared laser beam pulses to simulate the high-energy shockwaves created by asteroids slamming into the atmosphere.

(Asteroids, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars, NASA)

A film is placed against the heterogeneous tissue and activated by a laser beam to capture only the cells of interest.

(Laser Capture Microdissection, NCI Thesaurus)

The use of a low-level laser beam instead of an acupuncture needle to stimulate an acupuncture point.

(Laser acupuncture, NCI Dictionary)

A type of spectroscopy that utilizes a laser beam to irradiate a sample containing particles in suspension, resulting in light scattering.

(Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

A static light scattering technique involving measurement of the amount of light scattered by a suspension at multiple angles relative to the incident laser beam.

(Multi-Angle Laser Light Scattering, NCI Thesaurus)

A surgical procedure that uses the cutting power of a laser beam to make bloodless cuts in tissue or to remove a surface lesion such as a tumor.

(Laser surgery, NCI Dictionary)

A system of (usually) epifluorescence light microscopy in which a fine laser beam of light is scanned over the object through the objective lens.

(Confocal Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)