• Question: • What does LASER stand for?

    Asked by lozanderson to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Perfect answer, although of course ‘laser’ (when not in CAPS) is a genuine word as well as an acronym, and doesn’t actually need to stand for anything.

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