n. [ acronym from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation: ca.
n. A beam of light from a laser. [ PJC ]
n. A digital data storage medium consisting of a thin disk onto which the data is impressed by a laser, in the form of a linear sequence of dots; same as
n. Light produced by a laser. [ PJC ]
n. A printer controlled by a computer, using a laser beam to produce images in a fine dot-matrix pattern of charge on an electrostatic drum, to which fine particles of ink are subsequently caused to adhere, and the image of which is subsequently transferred to paper or another type of material in sheet form. It is capable of high-speed production of images with a higher resolution than those from dot-matrix impact printers. [ PJC ]
n. (Med.) Surgery using lasers. [ PJC ]
n. [ L. laser the juice of the laserwort. ] (Bot.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus