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Graser vs Grazer - What's the difference?

graser | grazer |

As nouns the difference between graser and grazer

is that graser is a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation in the gamma ray wavelength by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems while grazer is an animal that grazes.

graser

English

Alternative forms

* gaser

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physics, science fiction) A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation in the gamma ray wavelength by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1964 , date = February , first = Wallace , last = Cloud , authorlink = , magazine = Popular Science Monthly , title = Science newsfront , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=qS0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29 , issn = 0161-7370 , volume = 184 , issue = 2 , page = 29 , passage = The Russians are working on the graser . One B. V. Chirkov has published a theoretical study in the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics . He thinks a very pure crystal, "pumped" with a powerful source of radiation (such a "hard" X rays), much as a ruby crystal is pumped with high-intensity light in one form of laser, could be stimulated to emit coherent gamma rays—pulses of high-energy radiation perfectly in step. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1974 , date = October , first = Harlan , last = Ellison , authorlink = Harlan Ellison , magazine = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , title = Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W , volume = 47 , issue = 4 , page = 59 , passage = Not lasers. Grasers . Gamma Ray Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. }}
  • The beam of coherent gamma rays produced by such a device.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2008 , title = , first = Neal , last = Asher , authorlink = Neal Asher , passage = The graser beam melted through the far wall of the lounge, but luckily beyond that lay only sections of the complex containing the cargo runcibles, and there it finally spent its energy slagging the massive handler robots. }}

    Coordinate terms

    * laser * LASER * maser * MASER

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    grazer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal that grazes.
  • A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.
  • * 2004 , Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter, J. W. Harrington Jr., Geography and Technology (page 330)
    • Grazers have a lower level of involvement and view only when "something is happening."