noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
laser disk
laser pointer
laser printer
laser surgery (= surgery done using a laser )
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The doctor suggested laser surgery to improve her sight.
laser treatment (= treatment done with a laser )
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Laser treatment can be technically difficult.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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Although the argon laser offered the best available treatment for a time, newer lasers have now superseded it.
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If President Reagan wants some shiny new lasers , let him have them.
pulsed
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Although the pulsed dye laser is often considered of limited value in mature portwine stain, Tan has recently reported excellent results.
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With output parameters within the ideal boundaries, the pulsed dye laser provides far better results, particularly in children.
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The pulsed dye laser is used to remove port wine stains which affect three in every 1,000 people.
■ NOUN
beam
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Its motion can be detected - for example, by deflecting a laser beam that bounces off a mirror attached to the needle.
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Even in a stream of traffic the laser beam can isolate the offending vehicles with an accurate read out of speed and range.
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For obvious reasons, laser beams or submerged fluorescent wires can not be used to mark the start line.
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Calibration is done insitu using a chopped laser beam to provide a known heat increment.
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Stereolithography works by steering laser beams through a photosensitive liquid that solidifies when it is exposed to enough light.
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In this technique atoms have their velocities reduced by running head-on into a laser beam tuned to their transition frequency.
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The encoding is done by a fine laser beam burning a series of microscopic pits into the disc surface.
doppler
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An important question in the interpretation of the laser Doppler readings is the depth of the measurement region.
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The three colour laser Doppler Anemometer measures in three dimensions how fast a fluid is travelling past a given point.
dye
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Although the pulsed dye laser is often considered of limited value in mature portwine stain, Tan has recently reported excellent results.
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With output parameters within the ideal boundaries, the pulsed dye laser provides far better results, particularly in children.
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The pulsed dye laser is used to remove port wine stains which affect three in every 1,000 people.
gun
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Buff's face was full of hate and he was holding a laser gun .
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I hid Buff's laser gun and used some long plants to tie him up.
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You're a mercenary and you kill people with laser guns !
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I wanted to take a laser gun and kill all those monsters.
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Search the maze dodging the robots and auto-firing laser guns .
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But I didn't have a laser gun so I couldn't destroy them.
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The main improvement is a more powerful laser gun .
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A display window on the laser gun provides an instant score-card.
light
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The third works by making cancer cells susceptible to laser light which can be used to destroy them.
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Using laser cooling, scientists trap the atoms, holding them within carefully tuned beams of laser light .
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A stream of laser light , almost invisible in the near-vacuum, played across the creature's head and glistening body.
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Highly monochromatic laser light is split by the mirror M to travel along the two arms.
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Ruby laser light stitched the interior of the sanctum like thinnest threads of stronger flame within a dully glowing oven.
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The neodymium glass laser , nicknamed Vulcan, provides pulses of intense laser light to two target laboratories.
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The patient takes a drug which reacts to laser light .
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Half a dozen beams of concentrated laser light converged on it, and it burst into fragments.
printer
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Graphics handling is also quite impressive, on a par with much more expensive laser printers .
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As a result, inkjets were merely an interesting alternative to high-priced laser printers or the older dot-matrix printers.
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You can also attach the modem to a laser printer to form a receive-only fax.
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Inkjets now can create black-on-white printouts that equal those of expensive laser printers .
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This results in a clean, undistorted image which looks like it's come out of a laser printer rather than a fax machine.
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C.. Preprinted forms on special paper for laser printers .
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Support is provided for many popular printers as well as some laser printers, so quality of output will not be a problem.
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The output is obtained on a high-quality laser printer , suitable for copying.
technology
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Now it's hoped laser technology will protect customers and keep the fraudsters at bay.
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The company makes medical devices that use laser technology for correcting nearsightedness and other eye disorders.
treatment
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This represents a cost of £1000 per patient receiving laser treatment .
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The screening programme cost £10 per patient screened and £1000 per patient requiring laser treatment .
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Response to radiotherapy was assessed and further laser treatment performed if a viable tumour was identified.
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As long as the cancers are detected early enough, laser treatment can save lives.
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By laser treatment and radiotherapy we aimed to achieve the benefits of both while minimising complications.
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A recent pilot study with combined laser treatment and radiotherapy in oesophageal cancer produced promising results.
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Advances in keyhole surgery and laser treatment mean much speedier recovery.
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The laser treatment she received means she is well on the way to recovery.
■ VERB
develop
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Candela develops medical laser systems and is establishing a chain of cosmetic clinics based on the lasers.
use
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More expensive systems use laser beams to follow lines.
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You can use a laser to cut and you can use it on skin to reduce the wrinkles.
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Calibration is done insitu using a chopped laser beam to provide a known heat increment.
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In other words, I can precisely measure this surface by looking down at it using laser scanners and such.
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Printout method for large, or intarsia, designs using a laser printer or inkjet printer and non-continuous single sheets of paper.
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Visudyne therapy is a two-step procedure that uses medicine and lasers to restore vision.
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Such cases are currently treated using laser therapy.
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They use ink as opposed to the plastic toner used by lasers .