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superray en · NOUN

Etymology

From super- + ray.

Meanings

1. (rare) A very intense ray (beam); superbeam.
   • For example, could there be an infinitely complex code of information carried by cosmic superrays that penetrate all objects to various degrees? 2007, Gary E. Schwartz, The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science Is Discovering God In Everything, Including Us, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 141:
   • But other Greek philosophers reversed the process. Plato, for example, believed tahat some visual power emerged from the eye instead of the other way around, like superrays glowing from the eyes of a comic-book action hero. 2014, Jennifer M. Groh, Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
   • “The idea is to create a miniature sun. Remember the superray? 2008, Sharona Ben-Tov Muir, The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 63:

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