pressor beam

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device that generates a beam that repels other objects; or the beam itself.
    — Onward and upward flashed the gigantic duplex cone, its entire whirling mass laced and latticed together—into one mammoth unit by green tractor beams and red pressors.

词形变化

pressor beams plural presser beam alternative

词汇关系

反义词
tractor beam

词源

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.
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