straight; rectilinear, rectilineal^; direct, even, right, true, in a line; unbent, virgate^ &c v.; undeviating, unturned, undistorted, unswerving; straight as an arrow &c (direct) 278; inflexible &c 323. laser-straight; ramrod-straight.

[non-combustion based light sources] lamp, light; incandescent lamp, tungsten bulb, light bulb; flashlight, torch [Brit.]; arc light; laser; [microwave radiation]; maser neon bulb, neon sign; fluorescent lamp.

Vly picked up a small cutting tool with a laser guide at the end.

He turned off the lights and then pointed the laser at the crystal sphere.

Many dozens of flakes, invisible to the naked eye, were revealed when the laser beam pierced the near-perfect sphere.

They couldn't take their eyes off the resplendent glory of the sphere under the laser light.

"Laser light has only one wavelength, so it can't be refracting in there.

" "The crystal's impurities are almost invisible to the unaided eye," answered Vly, "but the laser hits the impurities and causes secondary emissions of light of all sorts of color-the more impurities, the more colors.

" As he moved the laser beam slowly around the globe, the interior lights changed-first one, then another "flaw" taking the light and surging into radiance.

All too soon, he switched off the laser and turned the room lights back on.

Their laser cannons were rapidly destroying the outlying parts of the mining base.

Joe looked out the window again and saw that laser cannons had begun to destroy the ships.

He, Zip, and George had followed Joe to the control center and were watching the laser beams sweep the landing field.

"Their laser beams are immensely powerful, and they're operating at full capacity," observed Zip, grimly.

He groaned, and the laser pistol he had been drawing was caught behind the table.

"Did either of them have a chance to set off an alarm?" "I think this one did," responded Joe, pointing to the fallen pirate at his feet and picking up his laser pistol.

The Starmen's last view of the scene was the pirate leader's shocked face, mouth agape, pulling his laser pistol up to fire.

Suddenly Zip grabbed the laser pistol that Joe was carrying and leaped out of the elevator.

"Lasers of different frequencies, all in one tool!"

A laser cannon locked onto one freighter and ripped open its hull.

As each passed through the sphere, it fired laser cannons at the freighters.

None of the lasers struck a vital point in any freighter's fuel system, but the potent cannons, each set on highest power, ripped into the unmanned ships and tore them open to the vacuum.

Crass' ships began to zoom toward the remaining freighters, laser cannons ready.

One Space Command laser pierced the Silver Cloud-a narrow but tight beam.

As soon as the enormous airlock became visible down the shaft, he fired a laser cannon at it.