"heat-ray" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "heat-rays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "heat-ray (plural heat-rays)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
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            "Fundamental"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Weapons",
          "orig": "en:Weapons",
          "parents": [
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 125",
          "text": "In the other cases the shells had missed, and the batteries had been at once annihilated by the Heat-Rays. Heavy losses of soldiers were mentioned[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A weapon that fires a beam of extremely high temperature."
      ],
      "id": "en-heat-ray-en-noun-~DkqcUhb",
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "weapon",
          "weapon"
        ],
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "temperature",
          "temperature"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(science fiction) A weapon that fires a beam of extremely high temperature."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heat-ray"
}

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    {
      "form": "heat-rays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heat-ray (plural heat-rays)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Science fiction",
        "en:Weapons"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 125",
          "text": "In the other cases the shells had missed, and the batteries had been at once annihilated by the Heat-Rays. Heavy losses of soldiers were mentioned[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A weapon that fires a beam of extremely high temperature."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "weapon",
          "weapon"
        ],
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "temperature",
          "temperature"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(science fiction) A weapon that fires a beam of extremely high temperature."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heat-ray"
}