单词 | energy gun |
释义 | > as lemmasenergy gun energy gun n. originally and chiefly Science Fiction a device which emits a (destructive) beam or pulse of energy or high-energy particles. ΚΠ 1917 Motion Picture Mag. Apr. 99/2 In ‘The Intrigue’, a Pallas picture.., soldiers meet their death as a result of a terrific electrical discharge from a huge energy gun, a purely imaginary contrivance. 1931 Tel.-Herald & Times-Jrnl. (Dubuque, Iowa) 7 Aug. 13/5 Scientists build new energy gun... Its projectiles are a stream, or beam, of protons..to shoot at heavy atoms to break them down. 1952 K. F. Crossen in Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 36/2 One of the Caphian ships appeared and settled to the ground just out of the range of an energy gun. < as lemmas |
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