tractor beam
tractor beam · tractor beams
Traktorstrahl, Fangstrahl
A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distanceA device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.
Meaning
1 sensesA device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.
Traktorstrahl, Fangstrahl
Translations
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By meaning 1
device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance:
Origin
Possibly a shortening of attractor beam; note however the broader meaning of tractor (“macPossibly a shortening of attractor beam; note however the broader meaning of tractor (“machinery that pulls something”). 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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Forms
plural: tractor beams| Singular | tractor beam |
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| Plural | tractor beams |
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