Laser vs Microstamping - What's the difference?
laser | microstamping |
A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
A laser printer.
* 2004 , PC Mag (volume 23, number 9, 18 May 2004, page 117)
To cut with a
(sports) To throw with laser-like precision
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The use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm, so that spent cartridges give information about the firearm.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 24, author=, title=An Opportunity for Mr. Schwarzenegger, work=New York Times
, passage=The measure would make California the first state to require that all new semiautomatic weapons be equipped with technology known as microstamping , which imprints microscopic markings as a gun fires. }}
As nouns the difference between laser and microstamping
is that laser is a device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light while microstamping is the use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm, so that spent cartridges give information about the firearm.As a verb laser
is to cut with a laser.laser
English
Etymology 1
From LASER, Originally called an optical maser .Noun
(wikipedia laser) (en noun)- The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably.
Synonyms
* LASER ( acronym of light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation ) * optical maser , optical MASERSee also
* TaserVerb
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Etymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* lasarSee also
* silphium, silfium, silphionAnagrams
* * * * English terms with multiple etymologies ----microstamping
English
(wikipedia microstamping)Noun
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