maser

noun

A device that generates or amplifies electromagnetic radiation, especially microwaves, of a coherent wavelength by stimulated emission.

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A natural object or region of space that acts like a maser, as a star-forming region of intersellar space.

noun

An obsolete form of mazer.

noun

Same as mazer.

noun

An electronic device producing coherent monochromatic microwave radiation; it produces less noise than other forms of microwave oscillator.

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Obsolete spelling of mazer.

noun

a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems

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Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method

noun

an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an amplifier that works on the same principle as a laser and emits coherent microwave radiation