Meaning of tractor beam | Babel Free

Definitions

A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.

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Examples

“Through it Stevens saw with satisfaction that the Forlorn Hope was not being abandoned; in the grip of powerful tractor beams, every fragment of the wreckage was following close behind them in their flight through space.”

“By the way they're braced, there are tractor beams and pressor beams and—there are vacuum tubes that have grids but apparently work with cold cathodes.”

“We're caught in a tractor beam! It's pulling us in!”

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