repulsor beam en · NOUN
Etymology
From repulse + -or and beam, a beam that repulses.
Meanings
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A device that emits an energy beam capable of pushing away other objects.
Hooked my model tractor beam into ship's power. Now it's a repulsor beam too. Want in?
1987, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “The Naked Now”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton):Installed at the center of mass and set to repulsor-beam, this one would be able to move the entire planetoid from its orbit.
1958 November, Poul Anderson, “A Bicycle Built for Brew”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 62, number 3:I always wondered how cloud city in ESB stay afloat and does not fall? Is it some kind of repulsor beam, or what?
1995 July 15, Umut Nurkan, “How does cloud city float?”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars (Usenet), message-ID <1995Jul14.190422.22468@hobbes.kzoo.edu>:No, that indicates a cloaked Romulan vessel with a repulsor beam.
2008 February 20, Iarnrod, “Re: WTC Towers: The case for controlled demolition”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| repulsor beams | Number=Plur | lexicographic |