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 (countable and uncountable, 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 May 18, PC Mag, volume 23, number 9, page 117:

     The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably.

4. (uncountable, medicine) Ellipsis of laser hair removal.

   I've still got a few more sessions of laser to get rid of the rest of my facial hair.

• 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. (transitive) To cut, destroy or treat with a laser.

   I'm having my eyes lasered to correct my astigmatism.

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

     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)

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

• laserpicium
• Laserpithium

• silphium, silfium, silphion

• Searl, seral, reals, Sarel, ALSer, Lares, 'rales, Earls, arles, rales, Arles, Arels, saler, lares, earls, lears, arsle

laser inan

1. laser

From English laser.

• Hyphenation: la‧ser

laser

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

From English laser.

laser

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) laser beam
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) beauty treatment that involves using laser

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛjzr̩]

laser m inan

1. laser (source of light)

• “laser”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “laser”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “laser”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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/

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• 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)

• laaser, laaseri, laseri

From English laser.

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

laser

1. laser

• “laser”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• 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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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.

3. (New Latin) A device that produces laser
4. (New Latin) The laser beam.

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

• lāserpīcium

• “laser”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Leo Latinus (25 December 2014). "Epistula LXXXIII". Epistulae Leoninae: 19: “… quia laseribus (*laser, -eris n. – Laser = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) caeruleis in discum compactum multo plura data imponi possunt quam rubris.”.

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
• Homophone: Laser

laser m inan (related adjective laserowy)

1. laser (device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light)
2. laser, laser beam (beam of light produced by such a device)
3. (cosmetics) therapeutic or cosmetic procedure performed with a laser

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

• lêiser (uncommon)

Borrowed from English laser.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ejzeʁ

laser m (plural lasers)

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

Borrowed from English laser or French laser.

laser n (plural lasere)

1. laser

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

lȁser m inan (Cyrillic spelling ла̏сер)

1. laser

laser c

1. a laser (device)
2. laser (as a technology)
3. a laser (laser beam)

   Synonym: laserstråle

4. a Laser (type of dinghy)

• lasra (“to laser”)

• laser in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• laser in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• laser in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)