Noun
Same as Mazer.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA precursor of the maser was a hydrogen device built and tested by the physicists Theodor V. Ionescu and Vasile Mihu in 1946. Source: Internet
Approved Carl Maser to the Meeker Lodging Tax Board. Source: Internet
During the early 1960s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a maser to provide ultra-low-noise amplification of S-band microwave signals received from deep space probes. Source: Internet
Concept Each satellite will have two rubidium atomic clocks and two passive hydrogen maser atomic clocks, critical to any satellite-navigation system, and a number of other components. Source: Internet
For this reason Charles Townes suggested replacing "microwave" with the word "molecular" as the first word in the acronym maser. Source: Internet
Most of these terms never caught on, however, and all have now become (apart from in science fiction) obsolete except for maser and laser. Source: Internet