English Explanatory Dictionary

pressor beam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A device that generates a beam that repels other objects; or the beam itself.

Word forms

pressor beam pressor beams presser beam

Etymology

From press + -or and beam. Analogous to "presser beam", a beam that presses, as the inverse of tractor beam. Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1931 in his novel Spacehounds of IPC, first serialized in Amazing Stories.

Synonyms

repulsor beam

Antonyms

tractor beam
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