"death ray" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: death rays [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} death ray (plural death rays)
  1. (science fiction) A beam of radiation that can kill. Hypernyms: ray, beam Related terms: cosmic ray, gamma ray, x-ray Coordinate_terms: shrink ray Translations (ray beam): 死光 (sǐguāng) (Chinese Mandarin), kuolemansäde (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-death_ray-en-noun-en:beam_of_radiation_that_can_kill Categories (other): Science fiction, Radiation Disambiguation of Radiation: 100 0 Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction Disambiguation of 'ray beam': 76 24
  2. (science fiction) A weapon that emits such a ray: a ray gun. Synonyms: heat-ray Hypernyms: weapon Coordinate_terms: shrink ray
    Sense id: en-death_ray-en-noun-en:device_as_weapon Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, Science fiction, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Weapons Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 27 73 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Weapons: 9 91 Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Energy Disambiguation of Energy: 0 0

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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