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名詞

tractor beam (複数形 tractor beams)

1. (science fiction) A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.

   Antonyms: pressor beam, repulsor beam

   • 1931 August, E. E. “Doc” Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories‎^[1], volume 6, number 5, page 549:

     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.

   • 1945 June, Murray Leinster, “The Ethical Equations”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 35, number 4, page 122:

     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.

   • 1977, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, spoken by Han Solo (Harrison Ford):

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