Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A color-screen such as is used in orthochromatic photography.
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Examples
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Its relux walls glowed a thousand colors as the tremendous energy of the ray-screen struck them -- but it was through!
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Each energy release disrupted the ray-screen for a moment, and the concentrated fury of the molecular beams poured through the opened screen, and struck the relux behind.
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The ray-screen stopped it, while again Morey turned the magnetic beam on -- this time against the fort.
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Finally, as Thett's forces had planned, they came to one of the ionized layer ray-screen stations that was still projecting its cone of protective screening to the layer above.
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Skylark was also protected by an outer, an intermediate, and an inner ray-screen; each driven by the super-power of a four-hundred-pound bar and each covering the entire spectrum -- capable of neutralizing any dangerous frequency known to those master-scientists, the Fenachrone.
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Upon the outer ray-screen, flaming white into incandescent defense, the furious bolt spent itself, and in the instant of the launching of the searing blade of flame, Brandon had gone into action.
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There is such a thing, as a ray-screen, you kill-joy, and there are also lifting or tractor rays -- two things I've been trying to dope out and that you've been giving me the Bronx cheer on.
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I'd thought of setting up three or four courses of five-ply screen on the board -- a detector screen on the outside of each course, next to it a repeller, then a full-coverage ether-ray screen, then a zone of force, and a full-coverage fifth-order ray-screen as a liner.
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"I'm going to hustle some workmen to installing the biggest spare power board I can get into the storerooms of the _Ancient Mariner_, and pack in a ray-screen.
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That big ray is hot stuff, and their ray-screen is something to write home about, too. "
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