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A laser (an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is a device which generates a coherent beam of light.

Laser can also refer to:

• Laser (dinghy), a popular type of sailing dinghy
• Silphium, an extinct plant of genus Ferula, which produced a resin (also called laser) that was important in ancient Greco-Roman cooking and herbal medicine
• Laser (plant), a genus of the family Apiaceae
• Laser (debit card), an Irish debit card
• Ford Laser, a rebadged Mazda 323 that sold in competition to it in some markets such as Australasia
• Plymouth Laser, a rebranded Mitsubishi Eclipse that was sold in competition to it in the United States
• Atom laser, a coherent state of propagating atoms

In computing:

• LASER (emulator), an arcade emulator. The name is an acronym for Little Arcade System Emulator Releases
• VTech Laser 200, a small early-1980s home computer
• MPEG-4 Part 20, Lightweight Applications Scene Representation (LASeR)

See also

• Lazar
• Lazer, Hautes-Alpes, a commune of the Hautes-Alpes département in France

• Disambiguation pages