Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pressor beam

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English

Syllables: pres-sor beam
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"By the way they're braced, there are tractor beams and pressor beams and—there are vacuum tubes that have grids but apparently work with cold cathodes."
"A pressor beam lashed out, and invisible hammer blow of repulsion, five times the strength of the enemy tractor."

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.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: press

Inflected Forms

pressor beams (plural) presser beam (alternative)

Synonyms

repulsor beam

Antonyms

tractor beam

Questions

What does pressor beam mean?: A device that generates a beam that repels other objects; or the beam itself.
Where does pressor beam come from?: 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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