cybercowboy

...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.

2000, Cutting Edge, Digital desires: language, identity and new technologies:

Unlike the cyborg and cybercowboy, technoman Lenny is a sad figure who cannot move on. Despite Faith's rejections he loiters about the club where she works...

2002, Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of fetishism: from decadence to the post-human:

...ruthlessly competitive with each other, these corporations hire cybercowboys like Case to do this risky work for them.

2003, Frederick Buell, From apocalypse to way of life: environmental crisis in the American century:

(science fiction) A character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in cyberspace.


科幻

/kʰɤ⁵⁵ xu̯än⁵¹/

/fɔː⁵⁵ waːn²²/

/kʰue³³⁻²³ huaŋ²¹³/

/kʰɤ⁵⁵ xu̯än⁵¹/

/fɔː⁵⁵ waːn²²/

/kʰue³³⁻²³ huaŋ²¹³/


timeslip

In any case, neither Morris nor Adeler used a timeslip like Twain.

1996, Rebecca A Umland, The use of Arthurian legend in Hollywood film:

And, although not in a timeslip tale, the horse protagonist of Richard Adams's Traveler (1988) is a creature inherently bound to General Lee...

1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy:

For an instant, she felt as though she were caught in a timeslip — her crew suffering from scurvy, the transporter a significant advantage...

He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper (1948) uses a timeslip to explain a mysterious actual event summarized in the story's prologue...

2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge companion to science fiction:

In an apparently fantastic moment, Stephen experiences a timeslip that enables him to secure his own existence.

(science fiction) A phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel.


mechanoid

Originally he'd entered the Game to rescue the others. He was a sanitation Mechanoid, programmed to clean, and, in theory, should have been immune to the Game's lure. But he wasn't.

(science fiction) A robot that is designed to look and act like a human.


Sirian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of (an exoplanet orbiting) Sirius.


slanshack

From slan (“science fiction fan”) + shack. From a clubhouse for science fiction fans in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA called "Slan Shack" which existed from 1943 to 1945; from the fanspeak term slan; from the science fiction novel Slan (1940) by A. E. van Vogt, by analogy to the superior but persecuted mutants of the novel.

Slan Shack - A science-fiction house in Battle Creek, charter members being Al & Abby Lu Ashley, Walt Liebscher, and Jack Wiedenbeck. Acquired in the summer of '43, it wasn't occupied by the slans till the eve of the Michiconference. EEEvans joined a little later.

1944, John Bristol Speer, “sfn - Sydcon”, in Fancyclopedia:

Sad to relate, however, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen. Probably none of them had ever been in a slanshack, and there were only a few completists among them.

1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life:

In fact we *had* a slanshack about 6 blocks from his house, but he never had the time to hang out much -- he would drop by for an hour or so to drink beer...

1995, Richard Newsome, “Signing one's real name”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):

(dated, fandom slang) A house shared by fans of science fiction.


Wellsian

en-adj

Wellsian (comparative more Wellsian, superlative most Wellsian)

more Wellsian (comparative)
most Wellsian (superlative)

The real problem is that a true Wellsian time machine would run into itself. The time machine on its pastward journey just after you flip the switch and the time machine sitting there just before you flip the switch will run into each other […]

1982, Nicholas D. Smith, Philosophers look at science fiction, →ISBN, page 52:

Of or pertaining to H. G. Wells (1866–1946), English writer regarded as a progenitor of science fiction, or his writings or politics.


Wellsian

X. is one of those incorrigible Wellsians who reads all the works of the great H. G. as fast as they appear and converts himself with the most protean readiness from one thing to another—student of modern married love—devotee of war-torn England—observer of the invisible king-god—revolutionist in education—friend of Bolshevist Russia—philosophic internationalist—world historian.

1922 January 25, Bruce Bliven, “Mr. X. of the Movies”, in The New Republic, volume XXIX, number 373, New York, N.Y.: The Republic Publishing Company, Inc., pages 246–247:

Most Wellsians of course will be familiar with the majority of these stories.

Even though Leon Stover’s views were shared by few Wellsians and were not expressed in a way conducing to their wider acceptance, he did make a considerable contribution to Wells studies.

2008, Science Fiction Studies, page 125:

I would also like to mention Wellsians who have particularly inspired me over the years whose memories are treasured: […]

2016, Emelyne Godfrey, “Acknowledgements”, in Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page ix:

An admirer of H. G. Wells (1866–1946), English writer regarded as a progenitor of science fiction, or his writings or politics.


science-fiction

en-noun

science-fiction (usually uncountable, plural science-fictions)


science-fiction

science-fiction (accusative indefinite nominative)
science-fictionul (accusative definite nominative)
science-fiction (indefinite)
science-fictionului (definite)
science-fictionule (vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English science-fiction.


sabre laser

(science fiction) lightsaber (sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light)


valosapeli

valosapeli (nominative singular)
valosapelit (nominative plural)
valosapeli (accusative nominative singular)
valosapelit (accusative nominative plural)
valosapelin (accusative genitive singular)
valosapelit (accusative genitive plural)
valosapelin (genitive singular)
valosapelien (genitive plural)
valosapeleiden (genitive plural)
valosapeleitten (genitive plural)
valosapelia (partitive singular)
valosapeleita (partitive plural)
valosapeleja (partitive plural)
valosapelissa (inessive singular)
valosapeleissa (inessive plural)
valosapelista (elative singular)
valosapeleista (elative plural)
valosapeliin (illative singular)
valosapeleihin (illative plural)
valosapelilla (adessive singular)
valosapeleilla (adessive plural)
valosapelilta (ablative singular)
valosapeleilta (ablative plural)
valosapelille (allative singular)
valosapeleille (allative plural)
valosapelina (essive singular)
valosapeleina (essive plural)
valosapeliksi (singular translative)
valosapeleiksi (plural translative)
valosapelitta (abessive singular)
valosapeleitta (abessive plural)
valosapelein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
valosapelini (nominative singular)
valosapelini (nominative plural)
valosapelini (accusative nominative singular)
valosapelini (accusative nominative plural)
valosapelini (accusative genitive singular)
valosapelini (accusative genitive plural)
valosapelini (genitive singular)
valosapelieni (genitive plural)
valosapeleideni (genitive plural)
valosapeleitteni (genitive plural)
valosapeliani (partitive singular)
valosapeleitani (partitive plural)
valosapelejani (partitive plural)
valosapelissani (inessive singular)
valosapeleissani (inessive plural)
valosapelistani (elative singular)
valosapeleistani (elative plural)
valosapeliini (illative singular)
valosapeleihini (illative plural)
valosapelillani (adessive singular)
valosapeleillani (adessive plural)
valosapeliltani (ablative singular)
valosapeleiltani (ablative plural)
valosapelilleni (allative singular)
valosapeleilleni (allative plural)
valosapelinani (essive singular)
valosapeleinani (essive plural)
valosapelikseni (singular translative)
valosapeleikseni (plural translative)
valosapelittani (abessive singular)
valosapeleittani (abessive plural)
valosapeleineni (comitative plural)
valosapelisi (nominative singular)
valosapelisi (nominative plural)
valosapelisi (accusative nominative singular)
valosapelisi (accusative nominative plural)
valosapelisi (accusative genitive singular)
valosapelisi (accusative genitive plural)
valosapelisi (genitive singular)
valosapeliesi (genitive plural)
valosapeleidesi (genitive plural)
valosapeleittesi (genitive plural)
valosapeliasi (partitive singular)
valosapeleitasi (partitive plural)
valosapelejasi (partitive plural)
valosapelissasi (inessive singular)
valosapeleissasi (inessive plural)
valosapelistasi (elative singular)
valosapeleistasi (elative plural)
valosapeliisi (illative singular)
valosapeleihisi (illative plural)
valosapelillasi (adessive singular)
valosapeleillasi (adessive plural)
valosapeliltasi (ablative singular)
valosapeleiltasi (ablative plural)
valosapelillesi (allative singular)
valosapeleillesi (allative plural)
valosapelinasi (essive singular)
valosapeleinasi (essive plural)
valosapeliksesi (singular translative)
valosapeleiksesi (plural translative)
valosapelittasi (abessive singular)
valosapeleittasi (abessive plural)
valosapeleinesi (comitative plural)
valosapelimme (nominative singular)
valosapelimme (nominative plural)
valosapelimme (accusative nominative singular)
valosapelimme (accusative nominative plural)
valosapelimme (accusative genitive singular)
valosapelimme (accusative genitive plural)
valosapelimme (genitive singular)
valosapeliemme (genitive plural)
valosapeleidemme (genitive plural)
valosapeleittemme (genitive plural)
valosapeliamme (partitive singular)
valosapeleitamme (partitive plural)
valosapelejamme (partitive plural)
valosapelissamme (inessive singular)
valosapeleissamme (inessive plural)
valosapelistamme (elative singular)
valosapeleistamme (elative plural)
valosapeliimme (illative singular)
valosapeleihimme (illative plural)
valosapelillamme (adessive singular)
valosapeleillamme (adessive plural)
valosapeliltamme (ablative singular)
valosapeleiltamme (ablative plural)
valosapelillemme (allative singular)
valosapeleillemme (allative plural)
valosapelinamme (essive singular)
valosapeleinamme (essive plural)
valosapeliksemme (singular translative)
valosapeleiksemme (plural translative)
valosapelittamme (abessive singular)
valosapeleittamme (abessive plural)
valosapeleinemme (comitative plural)
valosapelinne (nominative singular)
valosapelinne (nominative plural)
valosapelinne (accusative nominative singular)
valosapelinne (accusative nominative plural)
valosapelinne (accusative genitive singular)
valosapelinne (accusative genitive plural)
valosapelinne (genitive singular)
valosapelienne (genitive plural)
valosapeleidenne (genitive plural)
valosapeleittenne (genitive plural)
valosapelianne (partitive singular)
valosapeleitanne (partitive plural)
valosapelejanne (partitive plural)
valosapelissanne (inessive singular)
valosapeleissanne (inessive plural)
valosapelistanne (elative singular)
valosapeleistanne (elative plural)
valosapeliinne (illative singular)
valosapeleihinne (illative plural)
valosapelillanne (adessive singular)
valosapeleillanne (adessive plural)
valosapeliltanne (ablative singular)
valosapeleiltanne (ablative plural)
valosapelillenne (allative singular)
valosapeleillenne (allative plural)
valosapelinanne (essive singular)
valosapeleinanne (essive plural)
valosapeliksenne (singular translative)
valosapeleiksenne (plural translative)
valosapelittanne (abessive singular)
valosapeleittanne (abessive plural)
valosapeleinenne (comitative plural)
valosapelinsa (nominative singular)
valosapelinsa (nominative plural)
valosapelinsa (accusative nominative singular)
valosapelinsa (accusative nominative plural)
valosapelinsa (accusative genitive singular)
valosapelinsa (accusative genitive plural)
valosapelinsa (genitive singular)
valosapeliensa (genitive plural)
valosapeleidensa (genitive plural)
valosapeleittensa (genitive plural)
valosapeliaan (partitive singular)
valosapeliansa (partitive singular)
valosapeleitaan (partitive plural)
valosapelejaan (partitive plural)
valosapeleitansa (partitive plural)
valosapelejansa (partitive plural)
valosapelissaan (inessive singular)
valosapelissansa (inessive singular)
valosapeleissaan (inessive plural)
valosapeleissansa (inessive plural)
valosapelistaan (elative singular)
valosapelistansa (elative singular)
valosapeleistaan (elative plural)
valosapeleistansa (elative plural)
valosapeliinsa (illative singular)
valosapeleihinsa (illative plural)
valosapelillaan (adessive singular)
valosapelillansa (adessive singular)
valosapeleillaan (adessive plural)
valosapeleillansa (adessive plural)
valosapeliltaan (ablative singular)
valosapeliltansa (ablative singular)
valosapeleiltaan (ablative plural)
valosapeleiltansa (ablative plural)
valosapelilleen (allative singular)
valosapelillensa (allative singular)
valosapeleilleen (allative plural)
valosapeleillensa (allative plural)
valosapelinaan (essive singular)
valosapelinansa (essive singular)
valosapeleinaan (essive plural)
valosapeleinansa (essive plural)
valosapelikseen (singular translative)
valosapeliksensa (singular translative)
valosapeleikseen (plural translative)
valosapeleiksensa (plural translative)
valosapelittaan (abessive singular)
valosapelittansa (abessive singular)
valosapeleittaan (abessive plural)
valosapeleittansa (abessive plural)
valosapeleineen (comitative plural)
valosapeleinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈʋɑ̝lo̞ˌs̠ɑ̝pe̞li]

Calque of English lightsaber (“fictional weapon in the Star Wars movies”); valo (“light”) + sapeli (“saber”).


terraformation

en-noun

terraformation (countable and uncountable, plural terraformations)


red mercury

A supposed substance for use in the creation of nuclear bombs and other weapons, about which there are various conspiracy theories.


planetless

And I am not going to gamble half our resources on as crazy an effort as this, masterminded by a mouthful of planetless lunatics.

1961, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 20, Issues 1-6, page 163:

He cleared his throat and began the tale of the planetless boy, and Kate listened, drowsy, drifting.

1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, →ISBN, page 222:

Umlari, others called them. Or spacefolk. Or those planetless freaks. Living in their great stations, orbiting unwanted stars, the People cared nothing for names.

2006, Marvin Kaye, Forbidden planets, →ISBN, page 269:

(science fiction) Having no home planet.


univers parallèle

fr-noun

univers parallèle m (plural univers parallèles)


parallel universe

en-noun

parallel universe (plural parallel universes)

non-parallelizable universe

mathematically incompatible; without a common superordinate wave function

Subjectively we perceive this as a single, unpredictable or ‘random’ outcome, though from the multiverse point of view all the outcomes have actually happened. This parallel-universe multiplicity is the real reason for the unpredictability of the weather.

1998 [1997], David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 202:

(sciences, science fiction, cosmology) A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.


may the Force be with you

From the Star Wars film franchise, in which "the Force" is an omnipresent energy that can influence events and may be harnessed by gifted individuals.

What thoughts are you sending into the universe? Are they seeking the results you want, or are they attracting the things you don’t? The mental sharks will be drawn to you as surely as the results you desire. To be certain, be aware of the messages you are sending, and may the Force be with you, whatever you conceive it to be!

2007, Layton Park, Get Out of Your Way: Unlocking the Power of Your Mind to Get What You Want, 1st edition, Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:

(idiomatic) Used to wish someone luck with a difficult endeavor.


dragonhide

dragonhide (countable and uncountable, plural dragonhides)

She was also almost naked, except for a couple of mere scraps of the lightest chain mail and riding boots of iridescent dragonhide.

1983, Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic:


ovniologue

fr-noun

ovniologue m or f by sense (plural ovniologues)


ovni

Acronym of objecte volador no identificat, a calque of English unidentified flying object.


ovni

Acronym of objet volant non identifié, a calque of English unidentified flying object.


sexbot

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Jealous wives may destroy sexbot rivals and sue the manufacturer.

2000, Richard Rhodes, Visions of technology:

Another way that virtual entertainment might go is in the direction of the so-called sexbot. This would be a robotic device with artificial skin […]

2000, Joseph N Pelton, e-Sphere: the rise of the world-wide mind:

Having a sexbot had turned out to be more than Nosir had anticipated.

Given that people become addicted to all sorts of pleasures from slot machines to e-mail, sexbot addiction might be inevitable […]

2006, David N L Levy, Robots unlimited: life in a virtual age:

Then, we have sexbots, which are based on 1950 stereotypes about how a woman should behave: acquiescent, willing, always ready and patient in the home. How can that combo of 50s behaviour and porn-star looks be good for us as Homo sapiens?

2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, quoting Jeanette Winterson, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian:

(science fiction) A robot designed to have sexual intercourse with humans.


ковёр-самолёт

ru-noun+

ковёр-самолёт • (kovjór-samoljót) m inan (genitive ковра́-самолёта, nominative plural ковры́-самолёты, genitive plural ковро́в-самолётов)

kovjór-samoljót (romanization)
ковра́-самолёта (genitive)
ковры́-самолёты (nominative plural)
ковро́в-самолётов (genitive plural)
ковёр-самолёт (nominative singular)
ковры́-самолёты (nominative plural)
ковра́-самолёта (genitive singular)
ковро́в-самолётов (genitive plural)
ковру́-самолёту (dative singular)
ковра́м-самолётам (dative plural)
ковёр-самолёт (accusative singular)
ковры́-самолёты (accusative plural)
ковро́м-самолётом (instrumental singular)
ковра́ми-самолётами (instrumental plural)
ковре́-самолёте (prepositional singular)
ковра́х-самолётах (plural prepositional)

[kɐˈvʲɵr səmɐˈlʲɵt]

ко‧вёр-‧са‧мо‧лёт

From ковёр (kovjór) + самолёт (samoljót).

(aviation, fantasy, fiction) flying carpet, magic carpet (carpet capable of magical flight)


biot

(science fiction) A robot composed of living components.


Marsjanin

pl-noun

Marsjanin m pers (female equivalent Marsjanka)

Marsjanka (feminine)
Marsjanin (nominative singular)
Marsjanie (nominative plural)
Marsjanina (genitive singular)
Marsjan (genitive plural)
Marsjaninowi (dative singular)
Marsjanom (dative plural)
Marsjanina (accusative singular)
Marsjan (accusative plural)
Marsjaninem (instrumental singular)
Marsjanami (instrumental plural)
Marsjaninie (locative singular)
Marsjanach (locative plural)
Marsjaninie (singular vocative)
Marsjanie (plural vocative)

(science fiction) Martian (inhabitant of the planet Mars)


feelie

From feel + -ie. In the video game sense, introduced by the game publisher Infocom in the 1980s.

Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?

1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:

One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”

1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390:

TikTok’s endless talent show is so captivating that members of the intelligence community fear China could use the platform to spy on Americans or to disseminate propaganda—feelies as a weapon of war.

2023 January 30, Megan Garber, “We’ve Lost the Plot”, in The Atlantic:

(science fiction, often in the plural) A proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.


paleocontact

ancient astronauts
ancient astronauts#English

The theory that intelligent extraterrestrial beings (sometimes called ancient astronauts) visited Earth in the distant past, influencing human culture, technology, or religion.


ramscoop

(science fiction) A proposed space travel technology using enormous electromagnetic fields as a scoop to collect and compress hydrogen and trigger thermonuclear fusion, thus powering the vessel.


kiloyear

(geology, science fiction) Synonym of millennium: A period of one thousand years.


astrogate

en-verb

astrogate (third-person singular simple present astrogates, present participle astrogating, simple past and past participle astrogated)

astrogates (present singular third-person)
astrogating (participle present)
astrogated (participle past)
astrogated (past)

Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time. Now he had hundreds and had promised to deliver twenty-nine of them simultaneously to the exact second at twenty-nine pinpointed targets.

1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, New York: Ace, published 2018, Book 3, Chapter 25:

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.


precog

Clipping of precognitive. Coined by American author Philip K. Dick in 1954, and popularized in his 1956 short story "The Minority Report".

coin

(science fiction) A precognitive person.

(science fiction) Clipping of precognition.


precog

en-adj

precog (comparative more precog, superlative most precog)

more precog (comparative)
most precog (superlative)

(science fiction) Clipping of precognitive.


computronium

Toffoli says he thinks of CAM-8 as "computronium" — a flexible "element" capable of mimicking all other elements and particles, real or imagined.

1990 February 17, I. Amato, “Computronium: the 'element' that imitates”, in Science News, volume 137, number 7, page 103:

The process of making computers on ever smaller scales, using physical degrees of freedom and the laws of physics in an ever more efficient manner, can be thought of as a refining process. In this process we are trying to refine and concentrate the computing power inherent in the laws of physics. You might ask, "Can we achieve 100% pure 'Computronium'?"

1992, Norman Margolus, “Fundamental Physical Constraints on the Computational Process”, in BC Crandall, James Lewis, editors, Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 202:

They should be working on uploading and solving the nanoassembly conformational problem instead. Then we could turn all the available dumb matter into computronium and use it for processing our thoughts. Long-term, it's the only way to go.

2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando, Ace Books, Chapter 1, "Lobsters"

To this end, the AI might produce computronium (matter organized in a configuration that is optimal for computation) and use it to implement digital minds in states of euphoria.

2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press, page 140:

(science fiction, philosophy) A hypothetical material engineered to maximize its use as a computing substrate.


spacefarer

From space + farer. Compare spacefaring, seafarer.

(chiefly science fiction) a person who travels in space

зарапла́вец

a person who travels in space — see also astronaut


xenology

From xeno- + -logy. Coined prior to 1974 and later popularized by Robert Freitas.

(science fiction) The study of alien life.


chrononaut

From chrono- + -naut, modelled on astronaut and/or cosmonaut.

The honour of the final great mistake will go to David Powers, Scientist Chrononaut.

1972, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, volume 46, page 119:

The conventional view of time travel, however, has the ‘chrononauts’ travelling backwards and forwards in time. But in a more restricted sense we are all chrononauts, on a one-way fixed-speed journey into the future.

1999, John Guy Porter, Patrick Moore, Yearbook of Astronomy, page 146:

This tiny accident, because of the multiplicative effect of unforeseeable circumstances, results in an important alteration in the present time when the chrononauts return — the language is spoken differently and a different President of the United States has been elected.

2002, José Luis Sanz, Starring T. Rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, page 62:

(science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.


Terraforming

de-noun

Terraforming n (strong, genitive Terraformings, no plural)

Terraformings (genitive)
Terraforming (nominative singular)
Terraformings (genitive singular)
Terraforming (dative singular)
Terraforming (accusative singular)

(science fiction) terraforming (planetary engineering)


supersoldier

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Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold?
Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat.
Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

(science fiction) A soldier with remarkable strength, stamina, etc., especially if assisted by technology or genetics.


interdimensional

By their own mysterious yardstick, extraterrestrials and interdimensionals choose the most unlikely individuals for close encounters of the third kind on up: for starters Gilliland, Whitley Strieber, Jim Moroney, Betty and Barney Hill.

2012, Richard Grossinger, Dark Pool of Light, Volume Three: The Crisis and Future of Consciousness:

(science fiction) A hypothetical being that can move between dimensions.


太空人

/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/tʰaːi̯³³ hʊŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/

/tʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/

/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/tʰaːi̯³³ hʊŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/

/tʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/

The Hong Kong Cantonese sense comes from an interpretation of 太空人 as 太 (“wife”) + 空 (“empty”) + 人 (“person”).

(chiefly Hong Kong Cantonese) astronaut (person working abroad away from their family)


летающая тарелка

ru-noun+

лета́ющая таре́лка • (letájuščaja tarélka) f inan (genitive лета́ющей таре́лки, nominative plural лета́ющие таре́лки, genitive plural лета́ющих таре́лок)

лета́ющая таре́лка (canonical)
letájuščaja tarélka (romanization)
лета́ющей таре́лки (genitive)
лета́ющие таре́лки (nominative plural)
лета́ющих таре́лок (genitive plural)
лета́ющая таре́лка (nominative singular)
лета́ющие таре́лки (nominative plural)
лета́ющей таре́лки (genitive singular)
лета́ющих таре́лок (genitive plural)
лета́ющей таре́лке (dative singular)
лета́ющим таре́лкам (dative plural)
лета́ющую таре́лку (accusative singular)
лета́ющие таре́лки (accusative plural)
лета́ющей таре́лкой (instrumental singular)
лета́ющею таре́лкою (instrumental singular)
лета́ющими таре́лками (instrumental plural)
лета́ющей таре́лке (prepositional singular)
лета́ющих таре́лках (plural prepositional)

[lʲɪˈtajʉɕːɪjə tɐˈrʲeɫkə]


gengineered

genetically engineered
genetically engineered

(science fiction) genetically engineered


earthside

(science fiction) On or to the planet Earth.


slidewalk

(science fiction) A pavement/sidewalk that moves in the manner of a conveyor belt.


spacehand

From space + hand, analogous to deckhand.

(science fiction) A low-ranking member of the crew of a spaceship.


spacelegs

Very cautiously — it was more than a year since he had last been weightless and it would be some time before he regained his spacelegs — he hauled himself hand over hand through the airlock and into the large, circular chamber at the axis of the Space Station.

1968, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey:

(science fiction) The ability to work confidently in space, or a zero-gravity environment.


electrogravitics

a proposed science involving the use of an electric field to charge (or polarize) an object so as to counteract the effects of gravity.


terráqueo

pt-noun

terráqueo m (plural terráqueos, feminine terráquea, feminine plural terráqueas)

terráqueos (plural)
terráquea (feminine)
terráqueas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin terraqueus.

(chiefly in ufology or science fiction) Earthling (inhabitant of the planet Earth)


overmind

(science fiction) The leading or controlling mind in a groupmind.


Heinleinian

en-adj

Heinleinian (comparative more Heinleinian, superlative most Heinleinian)

more Heinleinian (comparative)
most Heinleinian (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), American science fiction writer, or to his works; characteristic of the writing of Robert A. Heinlein.


spinward

en-adv

spinward (comparative more spinward, superlative most spinward)

more spinward (comparative)
most spinward (superlative)

It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.

1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...

2007, Arthur C. Clarke with Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.

2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 215:

"[…] You would fall against the anti-spinward wall and slide down along that wall until you hit the floor ..." / "Whoa, whoa, whoa ..." Lars interrupted. "Anti-spinward? What in the world?" / "Moving in the same direction as the Station's direction of spin is considered spinward. Moving in the direction opposite the spin is considered anti-spinward. You sound like a boy asking what one does with his hands when the rollercoaster car leaves the track."

2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:

(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin.


Sol III

From Earth's position as the third planet from the Sun (Sol).

The alien lecturer describes the Terrans as a “newly emerged race from Sol III [Earth]” who are only just beginning to communicate with other species, but not very successfully, as the Aldebaran IV incident demonstrates.

2012 June, Dianne Newell, Victoria Lamont, Judith Merril: A Critical Study, McFarland & Company, page 86:

[…] enshrouded in bitterness and misery a man named Colin Marshack on an insignificant planet called Sol III, Earth, Terra, the world...

2014 April, Harlan Ellison, Paingod: And Other Delusions, Open Road Media, page 31:

At last the ship made its final approach to Sol III: Earth.

2016 October, Stephen Baxter, Destiny's Children: Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendent, Resplendent, Orion Publishing Group, page 50:

“VIRA, determine our current position and chart the fastest course to the next portal. We're going home to Earth!” “Current location: orbiting the moon of Sol III, also known as Earth.”

2017, Marc Baumgartner, Inheritance of Stars: New Worlds, tredition, page 388:

(chiefly science fiction) The planet Earth.


地球化

ㄉㄧˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

/ti⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/

/tei̯²² kʰɐu̯²¹ faː³³/

/ti⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/

/tei̯²² kʰɐu̯²¹ faː³³/


幽浮

/joʊ̯⁵⁵ fu³⁵/

/jɐu̯⁵⁵ fɐu̯²¹/

/joʊ̯⁵⁵ fu³⁵/

/jɐu̯⁵⁵ fɐu̯²¹/

unidentified flying object
unidentified flying object

(chiefly Taiwan) unidentified flying object; UFO


air pirate

(science fiction, fantasy) A pirate who travels by aircraft and targets other aircraft, analogously to the actions of a traditional seafaring pirate against ships.


autodestruction

(chiefly science fiction) A feature of a system whereby it destroys itself.


superlumic

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faster-than-light; having a speed greater than light.


M/S

Initialism from the names Mulder and Scully.

I am a M/S 'Shipper from my brown roots to my red toenails, but PMP was in NO WAY "Shippey."

1997 December 2, Gertie "the Bimbo" Beth, “PMP Fantasy (see the ep for what it really is...)”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Does this mean that I'm going to be getting spoiled on M/S fic from you as well now? :-D

1998 June 22, StarGzrCMC, “Re: NEW: Heaven Is Here (movie fic) 01/01”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Ok, being a M/S shipper is kinda hard now without Mulder around.

2001 December 8, Jewlz!, “Re: XF Controversies”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the television series The X-Files.


galaxywide

From galaxy + -wide. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1940 in the form "galaxy-wide".

coin

I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide.

1949 January, Henry Kuttner, “Time Axis”, in Startling Stories, volume 18, number 3, page 50:

Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments.

1959 June, Larry M. Harris, “Extracts from the Galactick Almanack”, in Galaxy, volume 17, number 5, page 136:

Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.

1989, Jack McKinney, The End of the Circle, →ISBN, page 203:


timescape

From time + -scape, probably by analogy with landscape.

Back to the Future
DeLorean DMC-12
San Diego Comic-Con

timescape n. time conceived of, or perceived as, possessing multiple dimensions.

[2007, “timescape”, in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 241:

My awareness extended beyond human memory and I drifted, lost in the crevices of the now visible Timescape. Then a point of light beckoned me and I strove for it. The light became the memory of my personality and I dove into it. I swirled in an ever-tightening spiral. I was all eight of my great-grand parents, I was both of my grandfathers and both of my grandmothers, I was my mother and my father and, finally, I was Jonathan Crowe again and I could now reflect upon what had been done to me.

2008 April 17, Jefferson R. Weekley, “The Pool of Blood”, in Red Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 214:

[Mark] Zuckerberg is pursued throughout the timescape by the litigious Winklevoss twins, who operate a time machine bought for them by their daddy. Zuckerberg must constantly leap to and fro throughout the centuries in order to duck summonses.

2011, Travis Harmon, Jonathan Shockley, “Introduction”, in Let There Be Facebook: Status Updates from God, Gaga, and Everyone in between, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone Books, →ISBN, page vii, footnote 2:

(science fiction) A multi-dimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs.


SCP

(genre): An initialism of special containment procedures. Not an initialism of the SCP Foundation’s motto, secure, contain, protect, which is a backronym from SCP.

init

SCP Breakout is an SCP experience based on the horror genre of the same title.

If you start reading or just heard about SCP and the writing community. This is the book to start reading.

2021, Grace Anderson Wilson, Terrifying SCP Horror Stories:

(fandom slang) A genre of science fiction horror consisting of quasi-scientific reports on the capture, containment, and attempted study of a variety of supernatural entities by the fictional shadow organization known as the SCP Foundation.


shuttlecraft

en-noun

shuttlecraft (plural shuttlecrafts or shuttlecraft)

shuttlecrafts (plural)
shuttlecraft (plural)

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A relatively small spacecraft, usually capable of atmospheric transport.


astrogation

If astrogation were that simple any sophomore could pilot a rocket ship […]

1958, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 7, in Have Space Suit, Will Travel, New York: Del Rey:

(science fiction) Astronavigation (navigation through space).


тахион

ru-noun+

тахио́н • (taxión) m inan (genitive тахио́на, nominative plural тахио́ны, genitive plural тахио́нов)

тахио́н (canonical)
taxión (romanization)
тахио́на (genitive)
тахио́ны (nominative plural)
тахио́нов (genitive plural)
тахио́н (nominative singular)
тахио́ны (nominative plural)
тахио́на (genitive singular)
тахио́нов (genitive plural)
тахио́ну (dative singular)
тахио́нам (dative plural)
тахио́н (accusative singular)
тахио́ны (accusative plural)
тахио́ном (instrumental singular)
тахио́нами (instrumental plural)
тахио́не (prepositional singular)
тахио́нах (plural prepositional)


retrocausality

en-noun

retrocausality (usually uncountable, plural retrocausalities)

(physics) Any of several hypothetical phenomena that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause.


MSR

Mars Sample Return mission
w:Mars sample return mission

(space science, US, NASA) Initialism of Mars Sample Return mission.

Although I regard this as a romantic piece, it's not an MSR in the usual sense--our heroes don't ride off into the sunset locked in each other's arms.

1997 April 12, Loch Ness [username], “Letters of Transit (0/14) By Loch Ness”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I'm writing an MSR (big surprise there) and I have a scene where M&S do a nice, sensuous slow dance.

2000 March 5, Tim Scott, “Research assistance request”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

In the last couple of years, it seems like the vast majority of stories posted are MSRs. You rarely see a slash story posted here anymore.

2001 August 4, Circe, “Re: xfc: XFC content changes”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(countable, X-Files fandom slang) Mulder/Scully romance; a fanfic involving a romantic relationship between the characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of the The X-Files.

I am a shipper, and yes, I prefer to read MSR.

2000 May 8, C. E. McLarney, “Re: NEW: "Remotely Controlled" (1/1) by Marguerite”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Although I read MSR occasionally (and at one time did exclusively) the minute I discovered slash I was hooked.

2003 April 14, pjay [username], “slash”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Made me want to read MSR again, and I thought I'd finally kicked that habit.

2006 June 12, jzjenn [username], “Paula Graves News”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.


hoverchair

He touched the controller hanging from the belt around his waist. His hoverchair rose in the corner and glided over to him, positioning itself at his side.

2005, Gregory Bernard Banks, Phoenix Tales: Stories of Death and Life:

He built his first hoverchair all by himself out of scavenged parts when he was only eight! And ever since, he's continued to upgrade it.

(chiefly science fiction) A chair that levitates.


teleportti

teleportti (nominative singular)
teleportit (nominative plural)
teleportti (accusative nominative singular)
teleportit (accusative nominative plural)
teleportin (accusative genitive singular)
teleportit (accusative genitive plural)
teleportin (genitive singular)
teleporttien (genitive plural)
teleporttia (partitive singular)
teleportteja (partitive plural)
teleportissa (inessive singular)
teleporteissa (inessive plural)
teleportista (elative singular)
teleporteista (elative plural)
teleporttiin (illative singular)
teleportteihin (illative plural)
teleportilla (adessive singular)
teleporteilla (adessive plural)
teleportilta (ablative singular)
teleporteilta (ablative plural)
teleportille (allative singular)
teleporteille (allative plural)
teleporttina (essive singular)
teleportteina (essive plural)
teleportiksi (singular translative)
teleporteiksi (plural translative)
teleportitta (abessive singular)
teleporteitta (abessive plural)
teleportein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
teleporttini (nominative singular)
teleporttini (nominative plural)
teleporttini (accusative nominative singular)
teleporttini (accusative nominative plural)
teleporttini (accusative genitive singular)
teleporttini (accusative genitive plural)
teleporttini (genitive singular)
teleporttieni (genitive plural)
teleporttiani (partitive singular)
teleporttejani (partitive plural)
teleportissani (inessive singular)
teleporteissani (inessive plural)
teleportistani (elative singular)
teleporteistani (elative plural)
teleporttiini (illative singular)
teleportteihini (illative plural)
teleportillani (adessive singular)
teleporteillani (adessive plural)
teleportiltani (ablative singular)
teleporteiltani (ablative plural)
teleportilleni (allative singular)
teleporteilleni (allative plural)
teleporttinani (essive singular)
teleportteinani (essive plural)
teleportikseni (singular translative)
teleporteikseni (plural translative)
teleportittani (abessive singular)
teleporteittani (abessive plural)
teleportteineni (comitative plural)
teleporttisi (nominative singular)
teleporttisi (nominative plural)
teleporttisi (accusative nominative singular)
teleporttisi (accusative nominative plural)
teleporttisi (accusative genitive singular)
teleporttisi (accusative genitive plural)
teleporttisi (genitive singular)
teleporttiesi (genitive plural)
teleporttiasi (partitive singular)
teleporttejasi (partitive plural)
teleportissasi (inessive singular)
teleporteissasi (inessive plural)
teleportistasi (elative singular)
teleporteistasi (elative plural)
teleporttiisi (illative singular)
teleportteihisi (illative plural)
teleportillasi (adessive singular)
teleporteillasi (adessive plural)
teleportiltasi (ablative singular)
teleporteiltasi (ablative plural)
teleportillesi (allative singular)
teleporteillesi (allative plural)
teleporttinasi (essive singular)
teleportteinasi (essive plural)
teleportiksesi (singular translative)
teleporteiksesi (plural translative)
teleportittasi (abessive singular)
teleporteittasi (abessive plural)
teleportteinesi (comitative plural)
teleporttimme (nominative singular)
teleporttimme (nominative plural)
teleporttimme (accusative nominative singular)
teleporttimme (accusative nominative plural)
teleporttimme (accusative genitive singular)
teleporttimme (accusative genitive plural)
teleporttimme (genitive singular)
teleporttiemme (genitive plural)
teleporttiamme (partitive singular)
teleporttejamme (partitive plural)
teleportissamme (inessive singular)
teleporteissamme (inessive plural)
teleportistamme (elative singular)
teleporteistamme (elative plural)
teleporttiimme (illative singular)
teleportteihimme (illative plural)
teleportillamme (adessive singular)
teleporteillamme (adessive plural)
teleportiltamme (ablative singular)
teleporteiltamme (ablative plural)
teleportillemme (allative singular)
teleporteillemme (allative plural)
teleporttinamme (essive singular)
teleportteinamme (essive plural)
teleportiksemme (singular translative)
teleporteiksemme (plural translative)
teleportittamme (abessive singular)
teleporteittamme (abessive plural)
teleportteinemme (comitative plural)
teleporttinne (nominative singular)
teleporttinne (nominative plural)
teleporttinne (accusative nominative singular)
teleporttinne (accusative nominative plural)
teleporttinne (accusative genitive singular)
teleporttinne (accusative genitive plural)
teleporttinne (genitive singular)
teleporttienne (genitive plural)
teleporttianne (partitive singular)
teleporttejanne (partitive plural)
teleportissanne (inessive singular)
teleporteissanne (inessive plural)
teleportistanne (elative singular)
teleporteistanne (elative plural)
teleporttiinne (illative singular)
teleportteihinne (illative plural)
teleportillanne (adessive singular)
teleporteillanne (adessive plural)
teleportiltanne (ablative singular)
teleporteiltanne (ablative plural)
teleportillenne (allative singular)
teleporteillenne (allative plural)
teleporttinanne (essive singular)
teleportteinanne (essive plural)
teleportiksenne (singular translative)
teleporteiksenne (plural translative)
teleportittanne (abessive singular)
teleporteittanne (abessive plural)
teleportteinenne (comitative plural)
teleporttinsa (nominative singular)
teleporttinsa (nominative plural)
teleporttinsa (accusative nominative singular)
teleporttinsa (accusative nominative plural)
teleporttinsa (accusative genitive singular)
teleporttinsa (accusative genitive plural)
teleporttinsa (genitive singular)
teleporttiensa (genitive plural)
teleporttiaan (partitive singular)
teleporttiansa (partitive singular)
teleporttejaan (partitive plural)
teleporttejansa (partitive plural)
teleportissaan (inessive singular)
teleportissansa (inessive singular)
teleporteissaan (inessive plural)
teleporteissansa (inessive plural)
teleportistaan (elative singular)
teleportistansa (elative singular)
teleporteistaan (elative plural)
teleporteistansa (elative plural)
teleporttiinsa (illative singular)
teleportteihinsa (illative plural)
teleportillaan (adessive singular)
teleportillansa (adessive singular)
teleporteillaan (adessive plural)
teleporteillansa (adessive plural)
teleportiltaan (ablative singular)
teleportiltansa (ablative singular)
teleporteiltaan (ablative plural)
teleporteiltansa (ablative plural)
teleportilleen (allative singular)
teleportillensa (allative singular)
teleporteilleen (allative plural)
teleporteillensa (allative plural)
teleporttinaan (essive singular)
teleporttinansa (essive singular)
teleportteinaan (essive plural)
teleportteinansa (essive plural)
teleportikseen (singular translative)
teleportiksensa (singular translative)
teleporteikseen (plural translative)
teleporteiksensa (plural translative)
teleportittaan (abessive singular)
teleportittansa (abessive singular)
teleporteittaan (abessive plural)
teleporteittansa (abessive plural)
teleportteineen (comitative plural)
teleportteinensa (comitative plural)

a teleport (a teleportation device or portal)


marsian

marsian (indefinite nominative singular)
marsians (genitive indefinite singular)
marsianen (definite nominative singular)
marsianens (definite genitive singular)
marsianer (indefinite nominative plural)
marsianers (genitive indefinite plural)
marsianerna (definite nominative plural)
marsianernas (definite genitive plural)

Martian (imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars)


decloak

en-verb

decloak (third-person singular simple present decloaks, present participle decloaking, simple past and past participle decloaked)

decloaks (present singular third-person)
decloaking (participle present)
decloaked (participle past)
decloaked (past)

(intransitive, science fiction) To become visible again by turning off a cloaking device


medician

During the Second Epoch, Tombilly, Chief of Ban Rona in the Green Hollows, fell ill to a malady for which the medicians of the Hollows could find no cure.

2008, Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness:

We have also the target of obtaining a good ontological description that allows a better use of CBR techniques to aid medicians in diagnostic accuracy.

2008, R. Nicholas et al., Identification of Relevant Knowledge for Characterizing the Melanoma Domain, in the report of the 2nd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, page 58

(chiefly in science fiction) A physician, a medical doctor; a medic.


ficção científica

Calque of English science fiction. Literally, “scientific fiction”.

As forças são entes de razão imaginados para os factos que não sabemos explicar. / A attracção universal não é mais do que uma ficção scientifica: assim que a julgavam Euler e Ampère. / Hoje no mundo physico só se admittem a materia e o movimento: á força, a que se attribuia a gravitação, substituiu-se o vibratorio do ether / Le Sage, de Genebra, e o abbade Leray, deduziram mathematicamente segundo a nova theoria, a mesma lei do movimento, e affirma-se que a fórmula conhecida não é rigorosa mas apenas approximada.

1882 January 7, L.A. e Medeiros, “Newton e a attracção universal”, in Sciencia para Todos, volume 1, number 1, Lisbon, section IV, page 396, column 1:

A história dos três oficiais norte-americanos que chegam de helicóptero e do mesmo modo partem para, não se sabe onde, levando consigo um balão-sonda caído em pleno coração de nosso país, se assemelha a um dêsses contos de ficção científica (pelos quais se procura preparar a mocidade para a guerra) e que no caso se mostra estranhamente realista...

1955 December 14, Paulo F. Alves Pinto, “Brasil e Argentina — duas políticas do petroleo”, in Revistra Brasiliense, number 2, São Paulo, page 77:


Anunnaki

Annunaki

lizard people; corrupted spelling, mostly restricted to the sense

(Mesopotamian mythology) A group of Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian deities in no known particular order including but not limited to Enki, Enlil, Ninlil and 'known as the fourth' Enbilulu.

Anunnaki

a group of Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian deities

conspiracy theories
conspiracy theory#Noun

(conspiracy theories) An extraterrestrial reptilian race supposed to originate from a hidden planet called "Niburu", thought to be the overlords of a secret world government and equated with the Nephilim by conspiracy theorists.


cloner

(science fiction) A device capable of duplicating physical objects.


Dalek voice

After the Daleks on the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who, where they spoke with an electronically modulated voice.

Burk replied in his husky Dalek voice without looking at the King but also without any trepidation: 'I was christened Herbert Burk.'

1982, Jakov Lind, Travels to the Enu: Story of a Shipwreck, page 60:

And it was something just to have it to look forward to, to think about instead of thinking about the Dalek voice. I have your notebook.

1984, Eileen Dewhurst, The House that Jack Built, page 40:

[…]eyes and a Dalek voice, and its dreadful polished face keeps swivelling towards me; it is an iron Archie Andrews, but I do not have to make it speak.

"Now press button A," a Dalek voice tells someone who is trying to set the video recorder to tape a TV programme for later viewing.

Sometimes one seems to hear it being read out by a dalek-voice

1994, Buddhist Society (London, England), The Middle Way, volumes 69-70, page 120

You know, this Dalek voice says, "The-bonnet's-open, you-are-low-on-fuel, the-engine-tem-perature-is-high, we're-not-going-to-make-it-on-this-one-Nick, we'll-be-walking-after-this-corner."

1997, Bruno MacDonald, Pink Floyd: through the eyes of...the band, its fans, friends, and foes, page 310:

Many questions were literary concoctions, edited from conversation into rather stiff print (One review referred to our 'Dalek voice'.)

1998, Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams, page 260:

Hawkins was to have a device implanted in his throat to help him speak in a 'strange Dalek voice ', as his wife put it, but the operation gave him another seven years of life.

2004, Graham Lord, Niv: the authorized biography of David Niven, page 240:

Is your name Oscar Lois Anderson?' Her Dalek voice echoed eerily through the black emptiness of the warehouse.

2005, P. D. Shelley, Sugar and Spice, page 171:

'This is she,' said the Dalek voice. 'Good evening,' said Tudor, 'it's Tudor Cornwall, University of Wessex.'

2005, Tim Heald, Death and the D'Urbervilles, page 244:

The Dalek voice isn't just for Dr Who fans as it can be used in place of a vocoder to produce more metallic style voices that are suitable for use in any dance genre.

2008, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques, page 121:

A harsh, throaty, staccato, monotone voice.


傳送

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵ sʊŋ⁵¹/

/t͡sʰyːn²¹ sʊŋ³³/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² saŋ⁴¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan²³⁻³³ saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan¹³⁻²² saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan²⁴⁻¹¹ saŋ¹¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² sɔŋ⁴¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² sɔŋ²¹/

/tʰuan¹³⁻²² sɔŋ²¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵ sʊŋ⁵¹/

/t͡sʰyːn²¹ sʊŋ³³/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² saŋ⁴¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan²³⁻³³ saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan¹³⁻²² saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan²⁴⁻¹¹ saŋ¹¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² sɔŋ⁴¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² sɔŋ²¹/

/tʰuan¹³⁻²² sɔŋ²¹/


first contact

en-noun

first contact (usually uncountable, plural first contacts)

Humanity’s first contact with an alien race occurred in 2157. At that time, the Alliance allowed survey fleets to activate any dormant mass relays discovered, a practice considered dangerous and irresponsible by Council-aligned races. When a turian patrol discovered a human fleet attempting to activate a relay, they attacked. One human vessel survived, retreating to the colony of Shanxi.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: First Contact War Codex entry:

(science fiction) The first meeting between humans and extraterrestrials.


von Neumann machine

von Neumann machine (plural von Neumann machines)

For John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician

(science fiction) Any machine that is capable of self-replication.


Spidey-sense

From the superpower of the fictional character Spider-Man (introduced by Marvel Comics in August 1962), nicknamed Spidey, who is able to preternaturally sense danger before it can be perceived by other senses.

Having known the man for most of his life he had a certain Spidey-sense when it came to Tim’s problems.

2003, Matthew F. Winn, chapter 1, in The Sandman, College Station, Tex.: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:

Abby, let me ask you this: Is your spidey sense sure Alison was killed by a man? Your other clues were that 'he' was short, wore oversized clothing, and had dark hair. What if Alison was killed by a butch-looking female?

2004 December, Victoria Laurie, Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (A Psychic Eye Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, →ISBN:

But the sports media elite, eating free press box sushi while the rest of us are paying $9.00 for a hot dog, could never understand what set our collective spidey senses tingling.

2005, Dave Zirin, “Stir of Echoes: A New Sporting Resistance?”, in What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States, Chicago, Ill.: Haymarket Books, →ISBN, page 259:

Don't settle for taking the world at face value. Too many people see a logo or a uniform and make bad assumptions. If your Spidey-sense tells you something's wrong, it probably is. If you don't have Spidey-sense, walk loudly and carry a big stick.

2009, “Top Ten Ways to Shut Down Hackers”, in Securing Intellectual Property: Protecting Trade Secrets and Other Information Assets, Burlington, Mass., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Butterworth-Heinemann; Syngress, →ISBN, page 153:

A sense of foreboding, almost like a Spidey-sense, tingled at the back of my neck.

2010, Tate Hallaway [pseudonym; Lyda Morehouse], Honeymoon of the Dead, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN:

As I turn to the right to get to the Registration Desk, my spidey senses are starting to warn me. There's nothing I can see that is cause for immediate concern, but I know I've got to keep paying attention to those spidey senses. I know they've saved me in the past.

2018 March 10, Brad Bagwell, chapter 1, in The Hunter: Southeast Asia, Ishpeming, Mich.: BookVenture Publishing, →ISBN, page 3:

While we are all enticed by the roller-coaster ride that will come with owning a 21-year-old Ronald Acuna, most of our spidey-senses tell us that a safe player in the first round allows us to survive six months of injuries and ineffectiveness from some of our subsequent picks.

2019 February 27, Fred Zinkie, “Ranking the Safest First-round Picks in Fantasy Baseball Drafts”, in Yahoo! Sports, archived from the original on 2019-03-18:

(humorous) An intuitive feeling, usually of something being dangerous or risky; (more generally) instinct, intuition.


tidsmaskine

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tidsmaskine c (singular definite tidsmaskinen, plural indefinite tidsmaskiner)

tidsmaskinen (definite singular)
tidsmaskiner (indefinite plural)
tidsmaskine (indefinite nominative singular)
tidsmaskinen (definite nominative singular)
tidsmaskiner (indefinite nominative plural)
tidsmaskinerne (definite nominative plural)
tidsmaskines (genitive indefinite singular)
tidsmaskinens (definite genitive singular)
tidsmaskiners (genitive indefinite plural)
tidsmaskinernes (definite genitive plural)

From tid (“time”) + -s- + maskine (“machine”).

af

time machine (hypothetical device used to travel in time)


droide

[ˈdɾɔɪ̯.d͡ʒi]

[ˈdɾɔɪ̯.d͡ʒi]


dimensão

[d͡ʒi.mẽˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

Borrowed from Latin dīmēnsiōnem (“measurement”).

(science fiction) dimension (a parallel plane of existence)


roboid

A roboid waiter, human-like but running on hidden casters, paused with a tray of drinks.

1974, Michael Moorcock, The shores of death:

The terrifying thing about all of this is that we now have a distinct possibility that a hive of aliens with their attendant purely biomechanical roboids the Greys, from another part of our universe, are intercepting and intervening in the affairs of our species.

It is their challenge, with the help of Tania, a roboid, to adapt the siblings to their new environment.

2009, Arnold J. Inzko, The Siblings' Legacy:


biomonitor

(science fiction) A device that displays a readout of a person's vital signs.


power suit

The crew chief was wearing a bulky exoskeleton power suit that enabled her to manipulate components weighing over a tonne […]

2007, Herbert S. Watson, DK-37, the Flight of Prometheus:

(science fiction) A powered exoskeleton.


tijdmachine

Compound of tijd + machine. In the sense “time machine” probably derived from English time machine.


stroj času

stroj času (nominative singular)
stroje času (nominative plural)
stroje času (genitive singular)
strojů času (genitive plural)
stroji času (dative singular)
strojům času (dative plural)
stroj času (accusative singular)
stroje času (accusative plural)
stroji času (singular vocative)
stroje času (plural vocative)
stroji času (locative singular)
strojích času (locative plural)
strojem času (instrumental singular)
stroji času (instrumental plural)

time machine (device used to travel in time)


wehikuł czasu

wehikuł czasu (nominative singular)
wehikuły czasu (nominative plural)
wehikułu czasu (genitive singular)
wehikułów czasu (genitive plural)
wehikułowi czasu (dative singular)
wehikułom czasu (dative plural)
wehikuł czasu (accusative singular)
wehikuły czasu (accusative plural)
wehikułem czasu (instrumental singular)
wehikułami czasu (instrumental plural)
wehikule czasu (locative singular)
wehikułach czasu (locative plural)
wehikule czasu (singular vocative)
wehikuły czasu (plural vocative)

Literally, “time vehicle”. From the title of the 1925 Polish translation of H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine.

(science fiction) time machine (hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future)


autochef

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Obediently, the autochef prepares each selection. But father knows that the House Brain, while presently silenced, never forgets and will be sure to prescribe an exhausting workout.

1984, Edward Cornish, Habitats tomorrow: homes and communities in an exciting new era:

Dinner was an elegant five-course meal whipped up on the spur of the moment by the autochef, and afterward Shelly's parents wanted her to watch vids with them.

1999, John Gregory Betancourt, Johnny Zed:

Cupboards, washers, cooking equipment; I stopped myself from adding consoles, autochefs and other basics to the list. This was Earth.

2002, Keith Brooke, Keepers of the Peace:

(science fiction) A machine that prepares and dispenses meals.


meat puppet

In a reversal of McLuhan, "man" becomes the extension of the nanotechnological, a meat puppet run by molecular machines.

I am just not that meat puppet that you have been dealing with on the 'outside. ' He was a second rate bureaucrat working out of some obscure Washington office. His body served me well, as others have for generations.

1995, David F. Gray, The Shepherd's Man, page 340:

Torture those hairless apes with heat-seeking anal probes, turn bystanders into meat-puppet disguises, or abduct humans and lay their office buildings to waste.

2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 73:

“Well, I'll tell you something. You are not getting your hands on my monster, my greatest creation to date. You will not be using him as your meat puppet.” “You think I'd want this wretched homunculus for a body?” “I right here.” “Oh, no, you have me all wrong. You see, the divine human vessel I wish to inhabit is your own.” “Huh?” “ I beg your pardon?” “Oh, come on, son, you've had your turn. Be a good boy and let your daddy inhabit your flesh.”

2024 November 11, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Laszlo's Father” (22:09 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 6, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

(science fiction) A body that is controlled by someone or something else.


autodestruct

en-verb

autodestruct (third-person singular simple present autodestructs, present participle autodestructing, simple past and past participle autodestructed)

autodestructs (present singular third-person)
autodestructing (participle present)
autodestructed (participle past)
autodestructed (past)

(intransitive, chiefly science fiction) To destroy itself by design (as of a mechanical system).


autodestruct

They won't take any prisoners! Activate the autodestruct!

(chiefly science fiction) A feature of a system whereby it destroys itself.


Skynet

From the Terminator film series, the first of which, The Terminator, premiered in 1984.

In the first two films, Skynet is a colossal piece of hardware, a single unit which contains an artificial intelligence designed to run the US nuclear weapons system, a doomsday computer that becomes aware and destroys humanity. […] It was only through some very fancy footwork that Terminator 2: Judgment Day managed to make it remotely plausible that Skynet had sent a second machine to a later date. Since Skynet is presumably aware of its own origins, this makes the first film marginally less plausible.

2005, Roz Kaveney, “Creation as Product: The Paradox of Franchises”, in From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 125:

Maybe I watched too many Mazinger shows or read too many Yoko Tsuno BDs as a kid and, surely, I think the best way to end […] humanity would be to migrate SkyNet to Windows Vista, but somehow I thought it would be fun.

2012, Cristina Urdiales, “Foreword”, in Collaborative Assistive Robot for Mobility Enhancement (CARMEN): The Bare Necessities: Assisted Wheelchair Navigation and beyond (Intelligent Systems Reference Library; 27), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN:

With the more convoluted Terminator Salvation, the seductive power of the skin job gives way to a constant maze of false seeming, centered on the relationship between John Connor and the part-cyborg Marcus Wright during the post-apocalyptic human fight against Skynet and its various killing machines.

2016, J. P. Telotte, “The Persistence of the Robot”, in Sean Redmond, Leon Marvell, editors, Endangered Science Fiction Film (AFI Film Series), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 254:

Calpurnia, the Good Sister, the artificial intelligence created by Zephyr Bain, had achieved consciousness and self-awareness. She knew of her existence. She had crossed the line from the predictable and anticipated inevitable model of machine consciousness. However, it should have stopped there. The Skynet model from the Terminator movies didn't really work, because true consciousness was a by-product of chemistry and physical constitution.

2017 April, Jonathan Maberry, chapter 128, in Dogs of War: A Joe Ledger Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 518:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(science fiction) A distributed artificial intelligence system that is aware of the physical world and acts autonomously through cyborgs and computer control systems.


sublight

(science fiction) Alternative spelling of sub-light


superlight

en-adj

superlight (comparative more superlight, superlative most superlight)

more superlight (comparative)
most superlight (superlative)

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He was now presenting his doctoral thesis, which concerned the physics of superlight travel. Nowadays, it was fast enough to cover the galaxy in days, but it would take years to cross the intergalactic void to the nearest major galaxy.

2008, David Hartline, Galactic Liberty, page 118:

(not comparable) faster-than-light, FTL; Faster than light speed (“c”).


克林貢

ㄎㄜˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄍㄨㄥˋ

/kʰɤ⁵¹ lin³⁵ kʊŋ⁵¹/

/kʰɤ⁵¹ lin³⁵ kʊŋ⁵¹/


eka-protactinium

Extended periodic table
eka-protactinium

Unbitrium (Ubt), an unsynthesized chemical element with atomic number 123.


Ganymedean

/ˌɡænəmɪˈdiː.ən/

(astronomy) Of or relating to the Jovian moon named for Ganymede, the largest in the Solar system.


Ganymedean

/ˌɡænəmɪˈdiː.ən/

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter).


Enceladan

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of Enceladus (a moon of Saturn).


Venerian

Venerian (comparative more Venerian, superlative most Venerian)

more Venerian (comparative)
most Venerian (superlative)

From Middle English venerien, either from Old French venerien or from Latin Venerius.


Mirandan

(astronomy) Of or relating to the Neptunian moon named for Miranda.


Charonian

/kəˈɹoʊnɪən/

/ʃəˈɹoʊnɪən/

From Charon + -ian, or from the alternative Latin oblique stem Charōnis.

The Charonians were proud of their frozen hell. Styxville was like Plutopolis, only less so.

1990, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).

Charonian staircase

a flight of steps from under the stage in ancient Greek theatre; used by arrivals from Hades.


Cererian

/səˈɹɪəɹɪ.ən/

From Latin Cereris, genitive case of Cerēs.

Sprinkled with salt and Cererean grain

1823, William Booth, “Nasidien”, in Flowers of Roman poesy, page 42:

An untilled soil its yearly growth of grain Cererian yields

1878, William Thomas Thornton, “Epode 16”, in Word for word from Horace, page 314:

As a divinity of the earth, Mefitis shows in fact two aspects: cererian, she is goddess of plowing [...], and chthonian

1986, Sarah Iles Johnston, The Journal of Indo-European studies, volume 14, page 44:

We find, for example, at Agnone a "Cererian" Hercules and at Rossano a "Mefitanian" Mamers (= Mars); presumably these two major Italic divinities, Hercules and Mamers, were the "guests" of Ceres and Mefitis

2004, Sarah Iles Johnston, Religions of the ancient world, page 233:

Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres


farspeak

en-verb

farspeak (third-person singular simple present farspeaks, present participle farspeaking, simple past farspoke, past participle farspoken)

farspeaks (present singular third-person)
farspeaking (participle present)
farspoke (past)
farspoken (participle past)

Then the conversation turned to a vexatious old topic: Denis's continuing futile attempts to farspeak other telepaths.

1987, Julian May, Intervention, page 169:

Talia longed for Kyril's ability to Farspeak; even at this distance she would have been able to get some kind of warning back to the Heralds near the Border.

1988, Mercedes Lackey, Arrow's Fall, page 178:

"Go on back to the City, child," she said, very calmly, "and when you are close enough, farspeak the Council".

1991, Margaret Ball, Flameweaver, page 23:

Unless," he added, leaning forward, lowering his hand to the railing, "you would care to farspeak Chiara and have the King settle this himself?"

She tried to farspeak them but couldn't catch enough magic even for that.

2007, Gail Dayton, The Eternal Rose, page 391:

(science fiction, fantasy) To engage in long-distance communication by magic or telepathy.


farspeak

Alerted by the powerful farspeak of the watching prairiecat, Whitetip, as soon as the Ganiks began filing down the path from the shelf, Bili had all three hundred and twelve of his male and female warriors standing to arms...

1982, Robert Adams, The Witch Goddess, page 185:

(science fiction, fantasy) The use of magic or telepathy to communicate over long distances.


scoutcraft

en-noun

scoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)

scoutcrafts (plural)
scoutcraft (plural)

Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.

1994, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd:

In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.

1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7:

He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?

2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298:

In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.

2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32:

The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.

2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137:

(rare, science fiction, ufology) A spacecraft used for scouting.


starport

(science fiction) A port for interstellar craft.


tidsrejse

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tidsrejse c (singular definite tidsrejsen, plural indefinite tidsrejser)

tidsrejsen (definite singular)
tidsrejser (indefinite plural)
tidsrejse (indefinite nominative singular)
tidsrejsen (definite nominative singular)
tidsrejser (indefinite nominative plural)
tidsrejserne (definite nominative plural)
tidsrejses (genitive indefinite singular)
tidsrejsens (definite genitive singular)
tidsrejsers (genitive indefinite plural)
tidsrejsernes (definite genitive plural)

From tid (“time”) + -s- + rejse (“journey”).


unbihexium

systematic element name
systematic element name

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 126 (symbol Ubh).


biobed

(science fiction, chiefly Star Trek) A bed equipped with biofeedback sensors for medical diagnosis.


Cerean

Pata'na was a Roman goddess who appears with greatly varied names, sometimes as a derivation from Ceres or a Cerean deity, and sometimes as Ceres herself.

1892, Charles Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains, published 2007, page 233:

Bouncing is something to be avoided in the low Cerean gravity: any bouncing here would have lifted me up against the café's green and white striped awning — and maybe on through it to interface violently with the 60 meters of carbonaceous chondrite rock that separate Clarkeville from the surface.

1994, Hayford Peirce, “Six Million Solid Gold Belter Buckles”, in Jonathan White: Stockbroker in Orbit, Wildside Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 45:

If so, a commonality of Cerean life with Terran and possible Martian life ... could provide a strong corroboration of the "Ceres origin" hypothesis.

2012, Joop M. Houtkooper, Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies, →ISBN, page 168:


Spockian

en-adj

Spockian (comparative more Spockian, superlative most Spockian)

more Spockian (comparative)
most Spockian (superlative)

And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.

1989, Howard Aiken, “Early Inventors”, in Robert Slater, editor, Portraits in Silicon, The MIT Press, →ISBN:

She bit into tough, stringy meat that had a pungent, wild taste to it. "Interesting," she commented, attempting a Spockian neutrality.

1997, Alex Matthews, Satan's Silence: The Second Cassidy McCabe Mystery, Intrigue Press, →ISBN, page 135:

Most cognitive psychologists in the mideighties viewed the brain as a computer-like mechanism based on pure logic and rational thought. There was no room for emotions in their Spockian formulation.

2009, Paul Herr, Primal Management: Unraveling the Secrets of Human Nature to Drive High Performance, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 24:

Related to, or characteristic of, the character Spock from Star Trek, especially in being emotionally detached.


subterrene

From Latin subterrēnus. By surface analysis, sub- + terrene.

With a deafening screech of metal upon rock—which surely must echo through all the recesses of the Mountain, and waken all its nightmare brood!—the subterrene smashed through the wall and came to rest beside them.

1956, Arthur C. Clarke, chapter 1, in The City and the Stars:

In the first field tests, a series of holes 2 inches in diameter and 12 feet deep were sunk with the rock-melting device, or subterrene.

1972, American Nuclear Society, Nuclear News, volume 15, page 47:

… “The beauty of the Subterrene is that, as it burrows through the rock hundreds of feet below the surface, it heats whatever stone it encounters into molten rock, or magma, which cools after the Subterrene has moved on. …

2009, November, Mark Ellis as James Axler, Outlanders 051: Warlord of the Pit

(rare) A machine for drilling or tunneling underground.

подзе́мная ло́дка

a machine for drilling or tunneling underground


vidscreen

“The homeopape conjectures were correct,” Felix Blau, boss of the police agency, was saying on the vidscreen.

1965, Philip K. Dick, “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 246:

The vidscreen was on in the shop, but all it did was preach about the wonders of colonial life and tell how paradise could be found by emigrating to the smaller planets of the Althosian system.


abduzir

pt-verb

abduzir (first-person singular present abduzo, first-person singular preterite abduzi, past participle abduzido)

abduzo (first-person present singular)
abduzi (first-person preterite singular)
abduzido (participle past)
abduzir (impersonal infinitive)
abduzir (first-person infinitive singular)
abduzires (infinitive second-person singular)
abduzir (infinitive singular third-person)
abduzirmos (first-person infinitive plural)
abduzirdes (infinitive plural second-person)
abduzirem (infinitive plural third-person)
abduzindo (gerund)
abduzido (masculine participle past singular)
abduzidos (masculine participle past plural)
abduzida (feminine participle past singular)
abduzidas (feminine participle past plural)
abduzo (first-person indicative present singular)
abduzes (indicative present second-person singular)
abduz (indicative present singular third-person)
abduzimos (first-person indicative plural present)
abduzis (indicative plural present second-person)
abduzem (indicative plural present third-person)
abduzia (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
abduzias (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
abduzia (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
abduzíamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
abduzíeis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
abduziam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
abduzi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
abduziste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
abduziu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
abduzimos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
abduzistes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
abduziram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
abduzira (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
abduziras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
abduzira (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
abduzíramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
abduzíreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
abduziram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
abduzirei (first-person future indicative singular)
abduzirás (future indicative second-person singular)
abduzirá (future indicative singular third-person)
abduziremos (first-person future indicative plural)
abduzireis (future indicative plural second-person)
abduzirão (future indicative plural third-person)
abduziria (conditional first-person singular)
abduzirias (conditional second-person singular)
abduziria (conditional singular third-person)
abduziríamos (conditional first-person plural)
abduziríeis (conditional plural second-person)
abduziriam (conditional plural third-person)
abduza (first-person present singular subjunctive)
abduzas (present second-person singular subjunctive)
abduza (present singular subjunctive third-person)
abduzamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
abduzais (plural present second-person subjunctive)
abduzam (plural present subjunctive third-person)
abduzisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
abduzisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
abduzisse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
abduzíssemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
abduzísseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
abduzissem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
abduzir (first-person future singular subjunctive)
abduzires (future second-person singular subjunctive)
abduzir (future singular subjunctive third-person)
abduzirmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
abduzirdes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
abduzirem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
abduz (imperative second-person singular)
abduze (imperative second-person singular)
abduza (imperative singular third-person)
abduzamos (first-person imperative plural)
abduzi (imperative plural second-person)
abduzam (imperative plural third-person)
não abduzas (imperative negative second-person singular)
não abduza (imperative negative singular third-person)
não abduzamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não abduzais (imperative negative plural second-person)
não abduzam (imperative negative plural third-person)

Learned borrowing from Latin abdūcere (“to take or lead away”), adapted to other verbs in -duzir.


planetfall

From planet + fall, by analogy with landfall.

“Listen up, grunts. We'll be making planetfall in T-minus three minutes. You'll be joining the war against the Scourge, an alien race of soulless, ruthless automatons.”

2024 August 12, Joe Saunders, “The Battle of Zab 9” (1:00 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Screaming Grunt (Nick Reczynski):

(science fiction) The arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of a planet.


carplane

Outside Bedrock headed for a carplane stop in a meditative mood.

1951, Alfred Elton Van Vogt, The weapon shops of Isher:

Unlike some other fictional portrayals of future family life — which simply place traditional family structures in a high-tech futuristic setting of carplanes, fully automated appliances, interplanetary civilizations, and robot servants […]

2002, David M. Newman, Elizabeth Grauerholz, Sociology of families:

The sides of the carplane will open by moving slowly down under the floor of the car. There won't be any maps and we'll never get lost because carplanes will always know where to go.

2009, Caroline Nixon, Michael Tomlinson, Kid's Box 6 Pupil's Book, Volume 6:

(science fiction) A vehicle that can drive on land like a car or fly like an aeroplane.


telescreen

From tele- + screen, from television. Popularized by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which they are used for government surveillance of citizens.

Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens, had seen his unpardonable arrogance.

1973, Robert Theobald, Stephanie Mills, The failure of success: ecological values vs. economic myths:

She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.

2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:

(science fiction) A screen for broadcasting television or similar media.


bodynet

From body + net, in the sense of network.

Think of yourself on some evening in the not-so-distant future, when wearable, fitted, and implanted electronic organs connected by bodynets are as commonplace as cotton […]

1996, William J. Mitchell, City of bits: space, place, and the infobahn:

A cathedral of light, if you will, of prefabricated carbon-fiber and lightweight synthetic thermal resins; equipped with stereo-immersive walls and motion sensors that respond via a bodynet to my ever shifting loci of desires and needs […]

1998, John Beckmann, The virtual dimension: architecture, representation, and crash culture:

With this technology, in the near future, people can participate in parties without leaving the house, needing only to dress in a bodynet (clothe^([sic]) with sensors).

2008, Julio Francisco Dantas de Rezende, Transpersonal Management: lessons from the Matrix trilogy:

(science fiction) An array of technology attached to the body.


cavorite

From Cavor + -ite. First used in 1901 in The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells. It was named after the fictional Dr. Cavor. The initial use was capitalized, but later authors borrowing the concept sometimes changed it to lowercase.
In the first use, the metal acted as a gravity shield; after the metal was cooled, objects contained within it were no longer subject to gravity. Some later uses, e.g., Alan Moore's, imagine the substance to simply have a negative gravitational mass.

“It seems to me it wouldn't cost much to cart any weight anywhere if you packed it in a Cavorite case.”

1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Chapter 3:

“In the early years, they were the most primitive structures ever to fly in space, cheap and overbuilt and overcrewed, hoisted on cavorite wings.”

1999, Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, reprinted by Macmillan, published 2000, →ISBN, page 760:

(science fiction) A hypothetical substance with anti-gravity effects.


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chronoclasm

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), and κλάστης (klástēs, “a person who breaks something”); from κλάω (kláō, “break”).

(science fiction) An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.


medscanner

He knelt beside Crusher and watched, briefly useless, as she passed her medscanner over the body. Except that it wasn't a body.

1997, Diane Duane, Intellivore, page 102:

Deep wounds in his chest were seeping blood, and the medscanner Tacitus had pressed against his neck showed his vital signs on the wane.

(science fiction, chiefly Star Trek) A portable device capable of scanning a patient to diagnose sickness or injury.


CSM

Cantiga de Santa Maria
w:Cantigas de Santa Maria

(music) Initialism of Cantiga de Santa Maria.


TNG

Star Trek: The Next Generation
w:Star Trek: The Next Generation

(television) Initialism of Star Trek: The Next Generation.


hyperjump

(science fiction) A jump that transports some physical object immediately from one place to another, as by a hyperdrive or jump drive.


jump drive

(USB flash drive): A trademark name of flash drives owned by Lexar.

(science fiction) A means of travelling faster than light by jumping from one point to another in space.


klingona

eo-head

klingona (accusative singular klingonan, plural klingonaj, accusative plural klingonajn)

klingonan (accusative singular)
klingonaj (plural)
klingonajn (accusative plural)

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Ĉiam por morti klingona batalisto estas preparita.

A Klingon warrior is always prepared to die.

of or relating to Klingons, a fictional extraterrestrial warrior race in the Star Trek universe


terano

terano (accusative singular teranon, plural teranoj, accusative plural teranojn)

teranon (accusative singular)
teranoj (plural)
teranojn (accusative plural)

From Tero (“Earth”) + -ano (“inhabitant”).

(science fiction) an inhabitant of planet Earth, a Terran, an Earthling


antitelephone

(physics) A hypothetical device, used in thought experiments on causality, that could be used to send signals into one's own past.


starfaring

From star + faring, modelled on seafaring.

The Migrant Fleet is the largest concentration of starfaring vessels in the galaxy, sprawling across millions of kilometers. It can take days for the entire fleet to pass through a mass relay.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Migrant Fleet Codex entry:

(science fiction) Travelling among the stars.


Hooke's atom

The harmonic potential used to describe the electron-nucleus interaction is a consequence of Hooke's law.

(quantum mechanics) An artificial helium-like atom where the Coulombic electron-nucleus interaction potential is replaced by a harmonic potential.


Romulan

From Romulus + -an. From the Star Trek franchise, in which they are described as being from the planet Romulus, drawing inspiration from the Roman origin story of Romulus and Remus.

"Some sort of Romulan game," Riker said thoughtfully. "Trying to make us guess what they're up to."

1999, Peter Allen David, Double or Nothing:

"He looks like a Romulan." Suddenly, her attention is focused on him and she calls across the street, "Hey, monkey Romulan, sort it out!"

...the law vaporizes like a Romulan warrior into the ions of space.

2001, Michael W McConnell, Robert F Cochran, Angela C Carmella, Christian perspectives on legal thought:

A member of a fictional alien race, described as being cunning and opportunistic.


Romulan

en-adj

Romulan (comparative more Romulan, superlative most Romulan)

more Romulan (comparative)
most Romulan (superlative)

Pertaining to the fictional extraterrestrial race, or its fictional polity, the Romulan Star Empire; from Star Trek.


Romulan

constructed language
constructed language#English

A fictional language and a constructed language. The fictional language of the Romulans, a fictional extraterrestrial race from Star Trek. Created words and phrases from Star Trek have been latterly expanded upon to create a constructed language, that some among the Star Trek fandom attempt to build into a usable language.


molecular assembler

en-noun

molecular assembler (plural molecular assemblers)

(science fiction) A device that, given an object and sufficient atoms of the required elements, would reproduce exact copies.


utomjording

utomjording (indefinite nominative singular)
utomjordings (genitive indefinite singular)
utomjordingen (definite nominative singular)
utomjordingens (definite genitive singular)
utomjordingar (indefinite nominative plural)
utomjordingars (genitive indefinite plural)
utomjordingarna (definite nominative plural)
utomjordingarnas (definite genitive plural)


mytharc

Blend of mythology + story arc, used originally and most commonly in reference to The X-Files.

This [Neon Genesis Evangelion] is one show that -really- has me sucked in. And yes, their mytharc has to be the most perfectly constructed thing I've ever seen. :)

1999, Heath Smith, “TAN: Neon Genesis and how to do the mytharc properly”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I think this is what you seek to avoid in mytharcs - a plot that drowns out the character-based drama and morality plays that are still Gene's finest legacy.

2000, Allronix, “An open letter to Ms. Roddenberry”, in alt.tv.earth-final-conflict (Usenet):

The mytharc is a continuous story line about the government's involvement in a plot to cover up the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth.

2008, J. P. Telotte, The essential science fiction television reader, page 234:

(fandom slang) The ongoing story arc that underpins all episodes of a television series.


superkick

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Thirty minutes later this superkick landed me, when I came crashing back to earth, at the door of the Egyptian tomb.

1920, The Saturday Evening Post, Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, page 129:

"Mere you-tickle-me-I-tickle you stuff. No Urge^([sic]) about that sort of thing; no Superkick;—well Starfire, if you know what I mean!"— she said it shyly, being young enough and Anglo-Saxon enough, to dread the language.

1933, Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Arabesque, Harper & Brothers, page 231:

Lori Couto's SUPERKICK?

1980, Berkley Middle School Yearbook, Berkley Public Library, page 29:

At the end of the season, in December, they have a competitive and hilarious “superkick,’ a contest measuring accuracy, distance, and style (“style meaning how mongrelly your kicks are”), but that’s generally the extent of formal ceremony, a fact Kelly savors.

2004, Brian Doyle, Spirited Men: Story, Soul & Substance, Cowley Publications, →ISBN, page 127:

(martial arts, video games, fantasy, science fiction, rare) An extremely strong kick, performed with proficiency, which differs from the common wrestling variation.


Jediism

A minor modern religion based on the Jedi of the Star Wars series.


Novikov self-consistency principle

Developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid-1980s.

(physics) A conjecture asserting that it is impossible to create paradoxes by time travel because the past cannot be changed.


Sarlacc

From the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi (1983).

A fictional multi-tentacled beast known to dissolve its prey slowly, buried in a depression in the desert sands of the planet Tatooine.


Jedi Knight

A powerful rank of Jedi below that of Jedi Master.


Yoda

The character was introduced in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Perhaps from Sanskrit योद्धा (yoddhā, “warrior”).

A wise old Jedi Master in the Star Wars films.


bioneer

Blend of biological + pioneer or biological + engineer, possibly coined by Kenny Ausubel.

Beneath the coat, a metal frame of gears and levers and wheels: living bone, tendon, sinew holding it together. A bioneer’s wet dream.

2002, Trent Jamieson, Garry Nurrish, Redsine, 7, →ISBN, page 13:

(chiefly science fiction) A biological engineer, an engineer of creatures, especially partially artificial/mechanical ones.


bioneer

en-verb

bioneer (third-person singular simple present bioneers, present participle bioneering, simple past and past participle bioneered)

bioneers (present singular third-person)
bioneering (participle present)
bioneered (participle past)
bioneered (past)

Lost beneath her abundant flesh was a vestigial skeleton which floated disconnected and unmoving in a gelatinous sea. Her bioneered organs were swollen to immense proportions and hundreds of liters of blood pumped through her extensive circulatory system.

1975, Thomas F. Monteleone, edited by Roger Elwood, Dystopian visions, page 3:

Devon scowled. "This is clever bioneering. A muttie that dies before it lives."

2002, Trent Jamieson, Garry Nurrish, Redsine, 7, →ISBN, page 11:

[…] an open space that would not have been possible a millennium earlier, before the development of sophisticated bioneering.

2002, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Octagonal Raven, →ISBN, page 90:

The cows were bioneered
so urbs could have fresh milk, laced
with graces — vitamins and serums conveyed in compact, pet-like packages. Even their shit is boutiqued. It falls in uniform pellets and smells like Zen.

2007, Peter Jay Shippy, How to build the ghost in your attic: a book-length poem, page 21:

(chiefly science fiction) To engineer biologically.


Callistan

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Callisto.


teleportera

head

teleportera (present teleporterar, preterite teleporterade, supine teleporterat, imperative teleportera)

teleporterar (present)
teleporterade (preterite)
teleporterat (supine)
teleportera (imperative)
teleportera (active infinitive)
teleporteras (infinitive passive)
teleporterat (active supine)
teleporterats (passive supine)
teleportera (active imperative)
teleporteren (active archaic imperative plural)
teleporterar (active indicative present)
teleporterade (active indicative past)
teleporteras (indicative passive present)
teleporterades (indicative passive past)
teleportera (active archaic indicative plural present)
teleporterade (active archaic indicative past plural)
teleporteras (archaic indicative passive plural present)
teleporterades (archaic indicative passive past plural)
teleportere (active dated present subjunctive)
teleporterade (active dated past subjunctive)
teleporteres (dated passive present subjunctive)
teleporterades (dated passive past subjunctive)
teleporterande (participle present)
teleporterad (participle past)


MIB

en-noun

MIB (countable and uncountable, plural MIBs)

(US, ufology, conspiracy theorists) Initialism of man in black.

(US, in the plural) Initialism of men in black.

Initialism of man in black.
Initialism of men in black.


GINO

From the construction of RINO and DINO, using -INO in conjunction with "G" for Galactica.

(neologism, fandom slang) Acronym of Galactica in name only—a derogatory term used by partisan fans of the original Battlestar Galactica to refer to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica


necrocracy

necrocracy (countable and uncountable, plural necrocracies)

From necro- (“dead”) + -cracy (“power, rule”).

confix

(fantasy, science fiction) A government ruled by the undead.


dropship

I'm sending down five more dropships, combat EMVs, and a thopter gunship.

1997 September 14, Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion, New York: Bantam, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 363:

IFF confirmed. Contact is Pelican Dropship Kilo 23. Over.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Sierra 117:

(science fiction) A flying transport that drops troops or equipment onto a planet, etc.


handwavium

From hand waving + -ium (“the chemical element suffix”).

af

My handwavium was an invented mineral, but - reading up - what about platinum? Could I substitute platinum for handwavium?

2008 February 3, Jacey Bedford <jacey@artisan-harmony.com>, “Handwavium”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):

It made no sense to him that their very impossibility was their pleasure. He puzzled over the spacecraft and their handwavium drives. "The thousand and one nights of Scheherazade, told by an engineering student who failed his graduation exams," was his literary judgment.

2008 March, Alexander Jablokov, “The Boarder”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 114, number 3, Concord, N.H.: Fantasy House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:

She writes romantic fantasy and science fiction, and makes liberal use of the substance known as handwavium.

2012, Imogen Howson, Blood of the Volcano, Cincinnati, Oh.: Samhain Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:

(informal, fiction) Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties.


létající talíř

létající talíř (nominative singular)
létající talíře (nominative plural)
létajícího talíře (genitive singular)
létajících talířů (genitive plural)
létajícímu talíři (dative singular)
létajícím talířům (dative plural)
létající talíř (accusative singular)
létající talíře (accusative plural)
létající talíři (singular vocative)
létající talíře (plural vocative)
létajícím talíři (locative singular)
létajících talířích (locative plural)
létajícím talířem (instrumental singular)
létajícími talíři (instrumental plural)


killbot

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(especially science fiction) A robot designed to kill; a robotic assassin.


marsbuar

marsbuaren (definite singular)
marsbuarar (indefinite plural)
marsbuarane (definite plural)

From Mars (“Mars”) + buar (“inhabitant, one who inhabits”).


closed time loop

en-noun

closed time loop (plural closed time loops)

(science fiction) A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past.


bootstrap paradox

bootstrap paradox (plural bootstrap paradoxes)

Compare bootstrap, pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, etc.

A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other.


Roman ring

closed timelike curve
closed timelike curve

A configuration of wormholes where for each individual wormhole the time difference across its mouths is such that it may not allow a closed timelike curve.


closed timelike curve

closed timelike curve (plural closed timelike curves)

(physics) A worldline that returns to its starting point.


chronovisor

A hypothetical machine that is able to see past and future events.

kronovizor

machine able to see past and future events


Tipler cylinder

Tipler cylinder (plural Tipler cylinders)

Named after American physicist Frank J. Tipler, who recognized the possibility of such a device in 1974.

A hypothetical massive, infinitely long cylinder spinning along its longitudinal axis, enabling time travel.


grandfather paradox

grandfather paradox (plural grandfather paradoxes)

From the paradox proposed by the French author René Barjavel in 1944 in his book Le Voyageur Imprudent, translated into English as "Future Times Three"; in its original form the paradox of one person going back to the past and killing their biological grandfather before the latter fathered the traveler's father, thus preventing the time traveler from ever being conceived in the first place.

The paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past.

Future Times Three
René Barjavel
grandfather paradox


autoinfanticide

For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.

2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time:

The inventor of a time machine about to commit autoinfanticide in the past

2016, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machine Tales, page 212:

(science fiction) The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.


impervium

(science fiction) An impervious substance.


cybersuit

The notion of a second skin may still be more seductive in the imagining than the reality, but on the utopian side of the Blade Runner there is the prospect of cybersuits, made possible by petrochemical fabrics.

1999, Herbert Blau, Nothing in itself: complexions of fashion, page 268:

Just as these suits make cybersex possible, they let the physician poke and feel, using cybergloves on one end and the patient's cybersuit responding on the other.

2002, Douglas Mulhall, Our molecular future:

He was looking at a small flexible screen wrapped halfway around his forearm, meshed into the fabric of his cybersuit.

2010, Sam Fisher, E-FORCE: State of Emergency, page 61:

(science fiction) A hypothetical suit of clothing that augments the wearer's capabilities by means of computer technology.


hypersleep

suspended animation
suspended animation#English

(science fiction) A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.