phaser
An electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.
Noun
- An electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.
- Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).
- Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun." - 1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:
- His oddly reserved nature stands out [...]. Whyte sets his phaser on stun, not kill. - 1995 July, THIS magazine, page 21:
- A Bajoran rushed past with an armful of phaser rifles, another with a box of hand phasers. - 1999, Dafydd ab Hugh, chapter 3, in Fallen Heroes [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; 5], New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books:
- A phase modulator
- Alternative form of PHASR.
Origin
* (science fiction): For the fictional weapon coined for Star Trek: originally a "ph(oton ma)ser," later changed canonically to a "phas(ed)-e(nergy) r(ectifier)" (of "nadions", not photons). * (phase modulation): phase + -er
Forms
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Derived
Verb
- To shoot with a phaser weapon.