seetee

Spelling out of CT, initialism of contraterrene. Coined by American science fiction author Jack Williamson in 1942.

coined

He followed her slowly into the empty hallway, announcing flatly, “I never made a seetee weapon. I don’t intend to start now.”

1949, Jack Williamson, “Seetee Shock”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 42, number 4, page 149:

He gritted his teeth as another bolt of seetee matter exploded against the energy screen.

1960, John Glasby, Black Abyss, e-book edition, published 2014, →ISBN:

She inferred what happened: the atmosphere of Yuggoth was composed of SeeTee matter. ¶ SeeTee. CT. ContraTerrene. Antimatter.

2010, Richard A. Lupoff, “Nothing Personal”, in Darrell Schweitzer, editor, Cthulhu’s Reign, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Synonym of contraterrene (“made of or pertaining to antimatter”).


replikant

replikant (nominative singular)
replikanci (nominative plural)
replikanty (derogatory nominative plural)
replikanta (genitive singular)
replikantów (genitive plural)
replikantowi (dative singular)
replikantom (dative plural)
replikanta (accusative singular)
replikantów (accusative plural)
replikantem (instrumental singular)
replikantami (instrumental plural)
replikancie (locative singular)
replikantach (locative plural)
replikancie (singular vocative)
replikanci (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English replicant, French réplicant, German Replikant, ultimately from Latin replicāns.

(science fiction) replicant (robot or artificial being that is an exact copy of a genuine lifeform, especially a human)


homeworlder

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the homeworld.


タイムマシーン

[ta̠imɯ̟ ma̠ɕĩːɴ]


Darth Vader-esque

en-adj

Darth Vader-esque (comparative more Darth Vader-esque, superlative most Darth Vader-esque)

more Darth Vader-esque (comparative)
most Darth Vader-esque (superlative)

Full of low-angle crotch shots and ominous Darth Vader-esque music, these gross distortions of gay and lesbian life (though mostly it’s gay men’s lives that are depicted) have been making the rounds in Congress and among the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

1993 July 2–8, Liz Galst, “Right-wing crotch shots”, in The Boston Phoenix, page 2, column 3:

Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.

1995 October, Steven Puchalski, “Can these sci-fi videos show us the Woman of the Future?”, in Sci Fi Entertainment, page 36:

Its self-billing as a multimedia sound-and-light show makes it sound grander than it actually is: wax figures are used to depict the hysteria, a Darth Vader-esque voice is used to narrate the show, and thanks to the museums circular seating arrangement, there are significant portions of the performance where you can’t actually see what’s happening.

2008, Sarah Hull, The Rough Guide to Boston, New York, N.Y., London, Delhi: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 237:

Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Darth Vader.


trekky

trekky (comparative more trekky, superlative most trekky)

more trekky (comparative)
most trekky (superlative)

But our genes are mutable, and like the mutant hamster, we could still be attuned to another planet by a trekky travel clock.

1990 May 15, Hospital Practice, page 130:

DO NOT wear a trekky looking Bluetooth earpiece, unless you are strutting through a Star Trek convention.

2009, Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women’s Favorites Online, Houston, Tex.: Bright Sky Press, →ISBN, page 120:

With barely any religion in Star Trek (exceptions are made for fraudulent religion) there is also no hint of mystery. Everything in the trekky world can be understood.

2015, Guy Collins, Faithful Doubt: The Wisdom of Uncertainty, ISD LLC, →ISBN:

A Trekky-style transporter is unlikely to exist in our lifetimes, if ever, but it’s clear that popular culture has an influence on the direction of scientific experimentation (and vice versa!).

2016, Lliana Bird, Jack Lewis, The Mice Who Sing for Sex, Sphere, →ISBN, page 292:

When online, we encounter writing systems and heroic fantasies that come from the past but also from the future, as Snowden describes the trekky fantasy of the NSA chief.

2019, Tarek El-Ariss, Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age, Princeton, N.J., Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 178:

A trekky appearance, I’ve seen those movies and Jupiter Rising, no doubt have jet boots, […]

2021, Paul Stansby, The Dimension Hopper & the Outer Space Guys:

Well, I thought the trekky look of a communicator that you whack to activate was kind of a cool idea.

2022, Curtis Wilbur, Tides of Air: An Inferno-Earth Series Novel, →ISBN:


Star Warsian

Star Warsian (comparative more Star Warsian, superlative most Star Warsian)

more Star Warsian (comparative)
most Star Warsian (superlative)

Basking in the afterglow of a virtually quintupled effects budget, and fearing that their gargantuan TV-movie script would ultimately just seem puny on the silver screen, Roddenberry and company began revising that script, puffing and packing it with long, loving exteriors of the Enterprise, dramatic space walks, and decidedly Star Wars'''ian visuals.

1994, William Shatner, Chris Kreski, Star Trek Movie Memories, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 63:

Which leads to another fault in the game, namely that if I can’t even remember the names of the damn characters, I certainly don’t particularly care about them. Another Star Warsian faux pas, since part of the beauty of the Star Wars universe and the star players therein is that you really root for the heroes and despise the bad guys.

2002 May, John Davison, “Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter”, in Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, number 56, page 103, column 3:

Kate Winslet is no longer topless in Titanic, bloody bullet wounds disappear in The Matrix, and swords, reminiscent of biblical ploughshares, have been beat into Star Warsian light beams in The Princess Bride.

2003, John Fischer, Finding God Where You Least Expect Him, Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House, →ISBN, page 93:

You can superimpose your Star Warsian title across any background, including stills and video clips from the videos that you took; […]

2007, Carl Plumer, Hollywood Special Effects with Adobe® Premiere® Elements 3, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 43:

We are connected to something larger than ourselves, be that God, Gaia, Brahma-Atman, or a Star Warsian force accessible through Yoda.

2008, Timothy L. Fort, Prophets, Profits, and Peace: The Positive Role of Business in Promoting Religious Tolerance, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

The Tempest is Shakespeare’s biggest play, like a Star Warsian epic as I watched the actors on stage I could see the character of Prospero having been used as the template of Lucas’ Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.

2009, Tyler Richard Ragan, The Bard’s Spirit: Shakespeare’s Social Gospel, Bookstand Publishing, →ISBN:

And by ‘On The Horizon’, we mean spatially, as Disney is keeping its new Star Wars app in the US for now. But were it here, or were you there, you’d be enjoying the ability to upload selfies into Star Warsian scenarios, and to have your local weather translated onto well-known galactic locales.

Resembling or characteristic of the Star Wars franchise.


Darth Vaderian

Darth Vaderian (comparative more Darth Vaderian, superlative most Darth Vaderian)

more Darth Vaderian (comparative)
most Darth Vaderian (superlative)

(What the heck is this “gun lobby” anyway? Am I it or is it some sort of Darth Vaderian conspiracy that manipulates the minds of innocent legislators?)

1989 February 13, Kevin Harris, “Odd correlation”, in The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash., page B2, column 5:

Though crowded and dwarfed by Darth Vaderian upstarts such as the Equitable Life Building across from it, the 17-story Candler Building on Peachtree remains alone in its 1904 stylishness.

1990 March 11, Bud Collins, “The changing winds of Atlanta”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 237, number 70, page A3, column 3:

Now that the “wall” has become a souvenir to be mounted on a plaque or picture frame and the lien between good guys and the “Evil Empire” with all its Darth Vaderian images is becoming more of a blur, there is evidence that those out there who live to protest something, anything, are getting desperate.

1990 August 12, Tom Barberi, “Barberi!”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 240, number 120, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 2B, column 2:

His [Oliver Stone’s] acceptance speech on September 17 concluded with the following lines: […] How can we possibly win against the overwhelming force of this government of the future, this Darth Vaderian empire?

1995, James Riordan, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, pages 246–247:

They spring up only after you have clicked the right-hand button on your mouse, a secret that is revealed by a message to that effect several seconds after you have been left staring at this Darth Vaderian screen.

1998 September 3, John J. Fried, “Forgetting to back up data? FileSitter automatically does it for you”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 95, page F2, column 4:

And therein lies a very troubling reality about the Orwellian — perhaps even Darth Vaderian — measures increasingly employed by marketers of today’s mega-media products.

1999 May 1, Katherine Monk, “Empire of hype”, in The Vancouver Sun, page E1, column 3:

To be sure, there will also be flops aplenty — misguided, mismarketed or simply amiss movies that would have tanked whether Phantom Menace was casting its Darth Vaderian shadow across the land.

1999 May 9, Steven Rea, “Curse of the ‘Phantom’”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 343, page F5, column 4:

If even America has difficulties managing the world, none of the four even think about becoming a Darth Vaderian-style world empire.

1999 December 19, Franz Schurmann, “Peace hangs by a thread”, in The Fresno Bee, page G1:

Peter Edmund Haydu assaying triple roles, some of which employ his marvelous Darth Vaderian bass.

2003 April 30, Sandy MacDonald, “‘Man of La Mancha’ is lavish but lacking”, in The Boston Globe, volume 263, number 120, page C3, column 4:

It seems like this is the moment, me covered in ice cream and my own guts, that Sanders is going to confront me with Darth Vaderian news.

2009, Michael Czyzniejewski, Elephants in Our Bedroom, Dzanc Books, →ISBN, page 186:

His heavy breathing fell to a Darth Vaderian murmur.

2017, Scott Kenemore, Zombie-in-Chief: Eater of the Free World, Gollancz, published 2020, →ISBN:

Thus don’t name your band Boozie Tromwellium & the Darth Vaderian Cosmonauts.

2021, Steve Marcone, Dave Philp, Managing Your Band: A Guide to Artist Management, 7th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 104:


Doctor Whovian

These Doctor Whovians, as they call themselves, will be particularly earnest in their pleas because the future depends on it. […] Many of the Doctor Whovians are members of a 2-year-old Seattle organization called the Society of the Rusting Tardis.

1987 April 24, Andee Beck, “‘Dr. Who’ fans have hopes of bringing their hero to KTPS”, in The News Tribune, 105th year, number 17, Tacoma, Wash., page D7, columns 1–2:

Doctor Whovians will further get the chance to see a real Tardis (a time-travel vehicle), a mockup of the ship’s control panel, and Bessie, the banana-colored 1953 Ford that belonged to Doctor No. 3 (played by Jon Pertwee).

1987 September 9, Andee Beck, “Dr. Who’s coming to Tacoma: The real McCoy will sign autographs at Bates school”, in The News Tribune, 105th year, number 155, Tacoma, Wash., page D10, column 2:

Why Doctor Whovians Owe It All To H.G. Wells

2012, Jean Asta, Quicklet: An Unofficial Guide: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, Hyperink Inc., →ISBN:

To maintain cover, I went to some UFO conventions in America, and Star Trek ones too. That was a blast, because I had been a Trekkie and also a Doctor Whovian.

2014, Don Bambrick, 5 Short Stories, Xlibris, →ISBN:

For Doctor Whovians, the episode downloaded was the final episode of season seven 'The Name of the Doctor'.

2014 August 19, James Vincent, “North Korean internet users download Top Gear, violent video games and American porn”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 2022-07-08:

As I was staring way too hard, I caught sight of faint Jolt grid marks up her right arm and forgot to breathe. Were those for real? Or was she just fangirling, like those Doctor Whovians with their pen-and-ink hash marks?

2016, Jill Williamson, Broken Trust, Novel Teen Press, →ISBN, page 23:

He was a longtime Parrothead, Beatlemaniac, Doctor Whovian and a (Star) Trekker.

2018 February 24–25, “[Obituaries] Jack Carver”, in Elizabethton Star, volume 93, number 40, Elizabethton, Tenn., page 5A, column 2:


Doctor Whovian

Doctor Whovian (comparative more Doctor Whovian, superlative most Doctor Whovian)

more Doctor Whovian (comparative)
most Doctor Whovian (superlative)

[…] it contains all-original short stories by a swarm of the usual Doctor-Whovian suspects: Jonathan Blum, Martin Day, Paul Ebbs, Jim Mortimore, Kate Orman, Justin Richards, Dave Stone and many others.

2004 spring, Interzone, number 193, page 62, column 1:

This is not the sleek white Apple-store vision of the future, but something altogether Doctor Whovian in its sensibilities, as enamored with the past as with the future’s mind-boggling possibilities.

2015 September 16, Amelia Mason, “How A Music Futurist Composes The Future”, in WBUR, archived from the original on 2023-04-16:

In a surreal multimedia performance-lecture, Nina Stuhldreher recounts an artistic research trip which accidentally turned into a Doctor Whovian robinsonade.

2016, “Nootropics and the Last Frontier of (Un)consciousness”, in Bristol Biennial 2016: In Other Worlds, page 24:

Except, that was Moriarty in the bride's frock, and none of this was real, because it was all taking place in one of Sherlock's mind palaces, that Doctor Whovian device whereby Messrs Moffat and Gatiss can do exactly what they want with their lead characters, in this case, tell a head-scratching one-off tale, while they wait for their two stars to pause making blockbusting films long enough to make a whole series.

2016 January 1, Caroline Frost, “'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' Review Finds Benedict Cumberbatch And Martin Freeman Suffering Time Constraints”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-04-16:

One part of this is the Doctor Whovian urge to hide behind the sofa, but it’s far more than that.

2017 January, Kieron Gillen, “Life and Darth”, in SFX, number 281, page 60:

The "I" here also could refer to Offa talking about himself in that sort of Doctor Whovian floating between the eighth century and the twentieth century.

2020, Nadia Ali Ismael, “Anachronism in Geoffrey Hill's 'Mercian Hymns'”, in Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, volume 5, number 1, published February 2021, →ISSN, page 75:

1990 / Chris Lydgate built a Dalek with his Doctor Whovian kids.

2021 March, Reed Magazine, volume 100, number 1, Portland, Ore.: the Office of Public Affairs at Reed College, →ISSN, page 38, column 1:

Oh, sure Polestar was already Volvo’s racing team and go-faster division before its Doctor Whovian electric regeneration, and Californian dentists had access to a Genesis, but in the UK these are brand-new, um, brands.

2022 August 19, Ollie Kew, “Genesis GV60 vs Polestar 2: EV newbie showdown”, in Top Gear, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

Controlling the game with blinks is something we have seen done before, particularly with the well-regarded Before Your Eyes on PC, but tying that to some sort of Doctor Whovian monster mechanic in which the creatures can grab you if you blink too much is absolutely the best/worst possible application for this kind of game mechanic.

2022 November 2, Lee Brady, “The Dark Pictures comes to PS VR2 with essentially Doctor Who angels”, in TrueTrophies, TrueGaming Network Ltd, archived from the original on 2022-11-02:

There are any number of Doctor-Whovian plots that could place the two together — failed mutation experiment, secondary mutation (a la Beast from "The X-Men," for example), or even a portal accident (which, in a fun Easter egg, would prove Geralt's well-documented disdain for the magic true).

2022 December 29, Chris Condry, “12 Witcher Stories Netflix Should Tell After Blood Origin”, in Looper, Static Media, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:


programmable matter

Matter which can change its physics properties in a programmable way.


dragonstone

en-noun

dragonstone (countable and uncountable, plural dragonstones)

(fantasy) A stone or gem having magical powers in relation to dragons.


star base

(science fiction) Alternative form of starbase


fankind

From fan + -kind, possible punning on mankind.

As most of you are, I'm sure, award, Harry [Broertjes] and his LEGION OUTPOST are well known throughout fankind.

(science fiction fandom slang) Fans collectively.


fanarchist

During the 1950s Dave was active in the Fanarchist crowd—those largely New York fans who avoided both fannish and mundane politics on the grounds that fanning should be fun.

1975 February, John Boardman, “In Memoriam: David Mason”, in Science Fiction Review, volume 4, number 1, page 13:

(science fiction fandom slang) A fan who rejects organized fandom, often as being motivated by anarchist thought.


fanarchistic

en-adj

fanarchistic (comparative more fanarchistic, superlative most fanarchistic)

more fanarchistic (comparative)
most fanarchistic (superlative)

From fanarchist (“a fan who rejects organized fandom, often as being motivated by anarchist thought”) + -ic.

suf

I am particularly struck with your underlying attitude that all these projects must be sponsored by the NFFF or some similar organization in order to be successful. Now I realise that my own personal fanarchistic attitude may perhaps be coloring my views, but I honestly cannot see the utility of the NFFF in such a connection.

1944, F. T. Laney, Fan-Dango, volume 2, number 3, page 9:

(science fiction fandom slang) Characteristic of a fanarchist; rejecting organized fandom.


gyrocab

They were not there waiting for her, after all. She came upon them getting out of a gyrocab just as she emerged from the tubes a on to street level. The gyrocabbie, wide-eyed, gazed after his fares for a moment, then hovered upward and away.

1951, Isaac Asimov, “Hostess”, in Nightfall and Other Stories, Green City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published 1969, page 76:


helicab

She'd insisted on creeping out of a back exit and we took three different helicabs.

1999, Phyllis Gotlieb, Violent Stars, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 182:

(science fiction) A helicopter used as a taxicab.


groundlubber

So might I ask just what exactly groundlubbers like you are doing in the Roofdom?

2007, China Miéville, Un Lun Dun, London: Macmillan Children's Books, →ISBN, page 86:

(science fiction, derogatory) Someone who does not regularly travel to space.


glassite

One of those cyclopean cylinders could, conceivably, miss the guiding beam and crash half a mile from its expected landing point—through the glassite roof of the immense waiting room perhaps—so that only a thin organic vapor and some powdered phosphates would be left behind to mark the passing of a thousand men.

1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 135:

(science fiction) A fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.


holocam

He kept up his cheerful demeanor. It wouldn't do for any of the holocams to see him looking irritable, for any recordings of such a response would appear on the news broadcasts.

2009 April 12, Aaron Allston, Outcast, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:

(science fiction) A device capable of capturing three-dimensional images in the form of a hologram.


groundside

Even then she gave them quite a battle. It was like a pair of minnows landing a four-foot bass, but they hauled her down and booted her groundside with a skill that eventually got the two pilots a citation.

1951 November, Paul W[arren] Fairman, “Proud Asteroid”, in Amazing Stories, volume 25, number 11, page 46:

(science fiction) Towards or on the surface of a planet.


gravitied

heavily-gravitied

non-gravitied

(in compounds) Having a specified type or strength of gravity.

It was designed to be accessible while in a gravitied environment, thankfully, even if far too many of the other amenities on board this class of ship were dependent on a lack of gravity to easily access.

2016, Jean Johnson, Blockade: First Salik War, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 95:


hubward

en-adv

hubward (comparative more hubward, superlative most hubward)

more hubward (comparative)
most hubward (superlative)

From hub (“the central part of a wheel”) + -ward.

suf

At 1700 station time, he headed hubward to where Captain Arran Syke, formerly captain of Mother Ramona's private guard, now head of Crossways Militia, had his office.

2017 October, Jacey Bedford, Nimbus: A Psi-Tech Novel, New York: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 55:

(science fiction) Towards the center (of a rotating spaceship or space station).


gravitics

I scan the Imperial Journal of Physics and the Borshallan Physics Review every day. Nobody's doing comparable work. They're all concerned with gravitics and field dynamics.

2014 October, Don Sakers, Children of the Eighth Day, Linthicum, M.D.: Speed-of-C Productions, →ISBN, page 186:

The fictional science of studying and controlling gravity.

I'll adjust the computer to our assigned radio beam and it can use the gravitics to mimic conventional flight.

1982, Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge, London, […]: Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 213:

Devices able to control gravity or gravitational waves, considered collectively.


groundcar

This had footpaths worn into it alongside the buildings, while its centre had been tiled level with slabs of hard white ceramic to carry the few groundcars here.

2015, Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 368:

(science fiction) A car unable to fly (as opposed to a flying car).


wishalloy

A hypothetical material that would have certain desirable properties, but is not known to exist.


Darth Vaderish

en-adj

Darth Vaderish (comparative more Darth Vaderish, superlative most Darth Vaderish)

more Darth Vaderish (comparative)
most Darth Vaderish (superlative)

From the Darth Vaderish heavy breathing that opens this show to the whooping and ooga-booga caveman gibberish, whistling chimes, and seductive African percussion, Levine’s score is a trash compacter powered by pure silliness.

1983 May 24, David Edelstein, “Man out to lunch”, in The Boston Phoenix, section three, page 3, column 4:

In our actual practice in daily life and thought, though, we are all fuzzies, even we economists, however glinty and Darth Vaderish we think we are made by mastery of the identification problem and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions.

1985, Donald N. McCloskey, The Rhetoric of Economics, The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 51:

I had just opened the rear door when out the corner of my eye I began to get an inkling maybe somebody had figured where Cifelli had an office as a very Darth Vaderish black-windowed sedan slid into view, the windows slowly lowering.

1991, Stan Cutler, The Face on the Cutting Room Floor, Signet, published 1993, →ISBN, page 14:

Resembling or characteristic of Darth Vader.


visiplate

The glare of a searchlight splashed against his visiplates. Simultaneously, the ship jumped like some toy that had been struck an intolerable blow.

1940, A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Slan, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., published 1946, page 101:

(science fiction) An electronic screen capable of displaying images or data.


visiscreen

An image of Abby appeared on visiscreens at the front of the room.

2010, David Gregory, The Last Christian, Waterville, M.E.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 611:


visiphone

During the late 21st century, the wide-spread use of portable voice-activated interactive computers and visiphones brought communications to their zenith.

2010, Eileen Siedman, The Faithful: 23rd Century Morality: A Mystery Novel, Bloomington, I.N.: Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 25:

(science fiction, dated) A telephone capable of making video calls.


visiphone

en-verb

visiphone (third-person singular simple present visiphones, present participle visiphoning, simple past and past participle visiphoned)

visiphones (present singular third-person)
visiphoning (participle present)
visiphoned (participle past)
visiphoned (past)

"Plum, try viziphoning them." / Plum pushed a key and said, "CQ, this is the starship Shillelagh of the Asteroid Federation, calling CQ."

1987, Thomas R. McDonough, The Architects of Hyperspace, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN:

(science fiction, dated) To call someone using a visiphone.


viewplate

Then the skeleton flitter moved to the left—out into the glare of the early day, a light too bright, even through the shielded viewplates of his helmet.

1956, Andrew North [pseudonym; Andre Norton], Plague Ship, New York, N.Y.: Gnome Press, page 146:

(science fiction, now rare) An electronic screen capable of displaying images or data.


transhumanity

From transhuman + -ity or trans- + humanity.

It was a way, Sean, of interrogating our very humanity—and our transhumanity; a way of enquiring what we might change into. That's the only possible true deep reason for colonization.

1980, Ian Watson, The Gardens of Delight, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, →ISBN, page 163:


spacehound

"I'll be very glad to show you around," he said, "but I must confess I was a little surprised when Rupert passed on your request. I couldn't understand why one of you spacehounds should be interested in our work. Aren't you going in the wrong direction?"

1953, Arthur C[harles] Clarke, Childhood's End, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →OCLC, page 116:

(science fiction, now rare) A person experienced in space travel.


spacewrecked

To relieve the solitude of the spacewrecked crew, they decide to send presents, which they wrapped in layers of paper that would burn up in the atmosphere, leaving the contents intact.

2000, Giovanni Caprara, translated by David Climie, Living in Space: From Science Fiction to the International Space Station, Toronto, O.N., Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, →ISBN, page 11:

(science fiction) Having been wrecked in space.


starway

I slept peacefully that night, dreaming of cruising the starways with Andrea. The next morning, I awoke feeling reinvigorated, revitalised, and many years younger.

2015, Frank George, Time's Well: A Chronicle in Three Parts, Bloomington, I.N.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:

(science fiction) A route or pathway between stars.


spacegram

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-spacegram.wav

From space + -gram (“something written, drawn or otherwise recorded”).

suf

Several times during their work and breaks to eat, Versha had received spacegrams or messages through the comcaller.

2006, Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie, Beast Master's Quest, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 65:

(science fiction) A short written message physically sent through space.


spacegram

en-verb

spacegram (third-person singular simple present spacegrams, present participle spacegramming, simple past and past participle spacegrammed)

spacegrams (present singular third-person)
spacegramming (participle present)
spacegrammed (participle past)
spacegrammed (past)

"We'll spacegram the specifications as soon as this call is finished," said Jerry. "How soon can we have a shipment?"

1952 March, Kendell Foster Crossen, “Things of Distinction”, in Startling Stories, volume 25, number 2, page 115:

(transitive, intransitive, science fiction) To send by spacegram.


starfleet

I couldn't sense net-based operations behind the doors, but if the records were correct, Ell Control had once been the central operations focus for the starfleets of the Rebuilt Hegemony, and had hummed with activity.

1996, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt Jr., Adiamante, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 63:


starfarer

In many ways, it was lucky for starfarers that the same basic DNA code and biochemistry had been found on placets all over the known galaxy, for it meant that habitable environments and edible foods were easy to find.

2017, Christopher L. Bennett, Patterns of Interference, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 150–151:

(science fiction) Someone who travels between stars.


ultrawave

There were short intervals between the reports, for ultrawaves, though traveling at the speed of light, still needed some time to span the tremendous distance.

1969, K[arl] H[erbert] Scheer, Walter Ernsting, translated by Wendayne Ackerman, Enterprise Stardust, London: Severn House, published 1977, →ISBN, page 28:

A type of radiation, often described as allowing for faster-than-light communication.

Of course, the radio signals came through on the ultrawave every so often, but the pep-talk description of the thrilling contest for endurance racing didn't mean much when I put it up against the facts.

1975, Lester del Rey, “Habit”, in Early Del Rey, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:

A device capable of receiving or producing ultrawaves.


spaceboat

Compound of space + boat, modelled after spaceship.

Twelve robot spaceboats emerged from the midst of the retreating armada and streaked toward the glowing bubble, which was expanding more rapidly.

1996, Julian May, Magnificat, London: Pan Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 551:


saucerman

To convince Sam Arkoff to put House of Usher — a film devoid of atomic mutants, bug-eyed saucermen, werewolves, vampires and other poster-friendly manifestations of the fifties' sci-fi boom — into production, Roger Corman had famously informed the joint head of American International that the house was the monster.

2003, Denis Meikle, Vincent Price: The Art of Fear, London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, →ISBN, page 76:

(science fiction) Someone who travels in a flying saucer.


spindizzy

From spin + dizzy. The science fiction sense was coined by American author James Blish in 1950 for the Cities in Flight series of books (published 1950–1962).

coinage

So the twin scientific themes of the first book are the development of antigravity technology called spindizzies that enable whole cities to lift into space, and the production of "anti-agathic" drugs that can extend life indefinitely, necessary for the immense journey times in interstellar space.

[2014, Brian Clegg, Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 26:

(science fiction) An anti-gravity propulsion system capable of faster-than-light travel, powered by the hypothetical Blackett effect.


shapechange

en-verb

shapechange (third-person singular simple present shapechanges, present participle shapechanging, simple past and past participle shapechanged)

shapechanges (present singular third-person)
shapechanging (participle present)
shapechanged (participle past)
shapechanged (past)

He clapped the big man on the shoulder and quickly left. In the shadows of the bridge he shapechanged and headed for Greenvale.

2004, Keri Arthur, Generation 18, London: Piatkus, published 2009, →ISBN, page 161:

(science fiction, fantasy) To shapeshift.


shapechange

I watched Michael's face and asked, "Why was he there then? I'd have put down money that it was a demon, but it was just a shapechange. There was a mortal inside it. Who was he?"

2003, Jim Butcher, Death Masks, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 78:

(science fiction, fantasy) An instance of shapechanging.


시간여행

siganyeohaeng (romanization)
時間旅行 (hanja)

[ɕʰiɡa̠ɲʌ̹ɦɛŋ]

[ɕʰiɡa̠ɲʌ̹ɦe̞ŋ]

시간(時間) (sigan, “time”) + 여행(旅行) (yeohaeng, “travel”).


magmatter

(physics) A hypothetical form of matter, consisting of magnetic monopoles and expected to be vastly stronger and denser than normal matter.


First Contact Day

en-noun

First Contact Day (plural First Contact Days)

first contact + day.
From the fictional instance of official first contact in the Star Trek fictional universe for Earth, occurring in the 1996 film First Contact on 5 April 2063. Taken by Trekkies as a day to celebrate Star Trek.

(fandom slang) April 5th, an annual occasion to celebrate Star Trek.

en:First Contact Day
en:Star Trek: First Contact

Back to the Future Day (21 October 2015)


lunarcrete

Researcher Larry Beyer of the University of Pittsburgh says a lunarcrete project would begin with the shipment of two molds and a work crew from Earth. First, the workers would bolt together an inner mold. It would be pressure tight and would serve as their temporary quarters. Then they'd erect an outer mold with a six-foot gap from the inner mold.

1990, David Gump, Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA, New York, N.Y., Westport, C.T., London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 190:

Lunarcrete or mooncrete could be made from lunar regolith, water and cement with the cement manufactured from lunar rock with a high calcium content.

2016, Louisa Preston, Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe, London: Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN, page 265:

One method is to combine regolith with a bonding agent to create lunar concrete (aka. "lunarcrete"), which can be printed out to build structures. In terms of benefits, lunarcrete requires less energy to produce than other building materials, is unaffected by extreme variations in temperature, absorbs harmful radiation, and is unaffected by prolonged exposure to vacuum.

2021 December 13, Matthew S. Williams, “The Logistics of Going "Interplanetary": What Does It Take to Live on the Moon?”, in Interesting Engineering, archived from the original on 2023-03-10:

This paper provides a fundamental basis for future research on confinement and strengthening for future coarse aggregate-free concretes, such as lunarcrete and 3D-printed concrete.

2023 February 15, Cheng Jiang, “Strength enhancement due to FRP confinement for coarse aggregate-free concrete”, in Engineering Structures, volume 277, New York, N.Y.: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon.


Klingonian

en-adj

Klingonian (comparative more Klingonian, superlative most Klingonian)

more Klingonian (comparative)
most Klingonian (superlative)

Anyway, German has the highest percentage of foreign literature in translation (taking over the lead from Russian), and although Canadian authors have indeed at high reputation among readers, US-American and British books (as well as French, Swedish, Israeli and Klingonian ones) also get a fair chance at the German reading public’s interest.

2000, Ellipse, Université de Sherbrooke, page 42:

‘Manga’. No matter how Klingonian this sounds to you, it has been a worldwidely-known word since 1990.

2005, The Broken Mirror: Portrait of the Self, Langgeng Gallery, page 115:

As an example, if we need to create a Klingonian locale file based on English language, we have to open a shell to create the new file in this way: / # cp share/locale/eng-GB.ini / share/locale/kln-KL.ini

2009, Francesco Fullone, Francesco Trucchia, eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step, Packt Publishing, →ISBN:

As was the case with his father, words from Bobby Junior’s mouth appeared to be spoken in some far-removed Klingonian dialect.

2018, Jeff Pearlman, “Title Dreams”, in Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 94:

“Don’t you remember me? I’m the passenger in the taxi which almost knocked you down last night,” Laura addressed her in what she liked to call “Scandinavian”, a concoction of Swedish and Danish, that is, she had learned to get by with in most Scandinavian countries except Finland, of course. Helle’s face lit up with an expression of recognition. She groped in her coat pocket and pulled out Laura’s “Klingonian” address. Laura nodded.

2019, Paul Werner, The Last Voyage of the Yankee Seas, TWENTYSIX, →ISBN, page 59:

Yet, somehow, today there is a quasi-official Klingon language institute, people who speak Klingon almost exclusively, and alleged cases of persons who want to raise their children in Klingon-speaking households. (Ludlow 2006: 162–3) […] Klingon may fictionally have begun its existence among fictional extra-terrestrials, and actual households may communicate in an actual language that has all the characteristic Klingonian flair, but that is nevertheless not Klingon.

2020, Stefano Predelli, “Cat’s Cradle: Peripheral Importations”, in Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section 5 (Fictional Languages), pages 82–83:

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Klingon language.


Lunarite

From Lunar (“pertaining to Luna”) + -ite.

Although his achievements were not numerous, he was able to hammer out a successful trade agreement with the Moon. The Lunarites were certainly pleased that their rich mining resources, needed by the Earth, were traded practically straight across for the air and water which they so desperately needed.

1993, Linda Hall, The Josiah Files, Nashville, T.N.: Thomas Nelson Publishers, →ISBN, page 132:

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


Lunite

"Our situation," Lamar remarked, "is similar to that which a Lunite might have encountered had he visited New England in 1690. Any wretch who claimed ancestry among the people of the moon in those days, would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake without mercy."

1933 February, Julian Kendig, Jr., “The Eternal Mask”, in Amazing Stories, volume 7, number 11, page 1036, column 2:

(science fiction, now rare) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


rimworld

The traffic chief shook his head. "You're making a mistake. You should stay up in the rimworlds where the Orchestra is loved. Downsystem you're nothing."

1985, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Memory of Whiteness: A Scientific Romance, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 91:

(science fiction) A planet located near the edge or rim of a galaxy.


planetman

Compound of planet + man, modelled after countryman.

One does not disturb a dreamer. It would be dangerous for both your planetman and the dreamer herself.

1976, Andre Norton, “Get Out of My Dream”, in Perilous Dreams, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., page 130:

(science fiction, now rare) Someone from one's own planet.


lifeship

You target our habs and lifeships, you slaughter us in our millions. We attack your military and infrastructure. And you call us the terrorists.

2004, Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 459:

(science fiction) A spaceship serving as an emergency medical center.


robotrix

The black man paced about across the oil-streaked cement, his arms folded, an absent expression on his face. Evidently he waited for the robotrix attendant to finish fueling up his ship.

1974, Philip K[indred] Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., published 1975, page 198:

The decor was different in every bar — there were chrome-plated Metropolis joints with dancing robotrixes, and sawdust-on-the-floor Western saloons with gunfights and can-can girls — but the faces were the same.

1989, Kim Newman, The Night Mayor, London […]: Pocket Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 132:

(science fiction) A female robot, or one with feminine characteristics.


jumpspace

The Fergus entered jumpspace, but never emerged. The Scandyans were kind enough to let us check their records, and they show a clean drop.

2003, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt Jr., The Ethos Effect, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 176:


jumpship

Ben stared at the hologram. "The megacorps don't have quite the monopoly on fast transit that they think they have," he said. "But it would certainly help if we had a few more jumpships. That would solve a lot of transit problems."

2015, Jacey Bedford, Crossways, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 59:

(science fiction) A spaceship able to instantaneously move large distances through space by traveling through hyperspace or jumpspace.


rocketport

This time, he knew for whom he was asking: they waited—as they've always waited, at rocketports, pneumatique stations, in delousing sheds and hand-out queues; in the greasy front offices of courts and refugee camps and detention bureaus—tired and grimy and stoned.

1974, M[ichael] John Harrison, The Centauri Device, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 178:


moonman

In this manner did I discourse with the Moonmen while taking my repast; after which they told me, if I had no objection, that they intended taking me to Moontown, to introduce me to their king […]

1863, William George Caldcleugh, “Story of Chico Capaac, or the Man in the Moon (the Story of the Moonmen)”, in Eastern Tales, James Challen and Son, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 230:

On the floor the Moonman's body shivered again.

1954, Catherine Lucile Moore, Northwest of Earth, Gnome Press, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 54:

As the first moonmen worked to set up their rudimentary base, supply ships would have to be sent periodically with additional provisions for more permanent materials for the eventual large lunar base. Meanwhile, the moonmen would continue to live in their pressurized domes. As supplies accumulated, construction of the permanent base would begin.

1958 March 14, William Leavitt, “Man in space”, in Air Force Magazine, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 122:

en:member of a nation of fictional moon dwellers

(science fiction, dated) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


jonbar hinge

A reference to the 1938 novel The Legion of Time, in which the character John Barr having the choice of picking up of one of two objects (a magnet or a pebble) marks a major turning point in history: one will lead to the utopian empire of Jonbar (named after John Barr himself), while the other leads to the rise of the tyrannical state of Gyronchi. Further etymology at John, Barr.

(science fiction) In time travel stories: a seemingly trivial event which ultimately marks the point of divergence between two radically different timelines.


Luna City

From Luna (“the name of Earth's moon”) + city.

(science fiction) The name of a major colony or city on the Moon in various science fiction works.


threedy

From the pronunciation of 3D (“three-dimensional”).

"Nothing else. We don’t know anything... at all... about what brings St. Andrews into this. But she knows too much, Benny. Lots and lots of stuff that didn't appear—and never will appear—in the newspapes, or on the threedies."

1994 February, Earthsong: Native Tongue III, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 176:

(science fiction) A three-dimensional movie or television program.


mindlink

"No," Bean replied. "More likely, the Minkowski Line would learn how to create more efficient mindlinks than the one that the Martians developed without access to advanced technology. But that would be enough."

2009 July, Lawrence Barker, Blood Red Sphere, Arlington, Tex.: Swimming Kangaroo Books, →ISBN, page 231:

(science fiction) A telepathic link or connection between separate minds.


xenological

"I don't think they'll be in any mood to trade xenological theory, Oma. They might not be so lenient with us now we've put up a fight."

2017, Eric Brown, Binary System, Oxford, Oxforshire: Solaris, →ISBN, page 226:

(science fiction) Relating to xenology ("the study of alien life").


ultradrive

Politically, the assistance Marius provided was subtle and invaluable, allowing Ethan to build alliances within the Council and among the Clerics of the Orchard Palace, propelling him to a position where he could put himself forward for election with a great deal of confidence. Included with that was the offer of ultradrives for the Pilgrimage ships, a gift that would generate a near-certain success.

2008, Peter F. Hamilton, The Temporal Void, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 358–359:

(science fiction) A spaceship drive capable of travelling faster than the speed of light.


ultraphone

Amalfi wondered if the Hruntans understood English; not that he was worried about the present interchange being overheard—the giant planet would block that most effectively, since the Utopians used ordinary radio rather than ultraphones or Dirac communicators—but it was of the utmost importance, if Hazleton's scheme was to be made workable, that the Hruntans should have heard and understood the warning the Earth police had issued to the city.

1955, James Blish, Earthman, Come Home (Cities in Flight; 1), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1958, page 29:

(science fiction) A telephone capable of transmitting communications faster than the speed of light.


mindmeld

en-verb

mindmeld (third-person singular simple present mindmelds, present participle mindmelding, simple past and past participle mindmelded)

mindmelds (present singular third-person)
mindmelding (participle present)
mindmelded (participle past)
mindmelded (past)

Compound of mind + meld, originally from the Star Trek franchise.

Besides, the old Social Bandit has been soft on Wasps since the moonshot, when he mindmelded with the astronauts.

1993, Norman Mailer, “The Trouble With Harry”, in John Leonard, editor, The Last Innocent White Man in America, and Other Writings, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, page 189:

We are now deep into jury selection, eight days in court huddled at the table with our jury consultant, trying to mindmeld with strangers whose names have been churned out from computerized voter lists and drivers' license records at DMV.

2005, Steve Martini, Double Tap, Coalville, Leicestershire: Charnwood, published 2006, →ISBN, page 295:

That didn't happen with [Adam] Franklin, who was probably too distracted in 2008 by his underrated band's reunion, as well as his brilliant solo effort Bolts of Melody, to take over the wheel of Magnetic Morning. Instead, the two UK musicians mindmelded and found a middle ground, which sounds very cool indeed.

2008 October 12, Scott Thill, “Swervedriver and Interpol's Magnetic Morning Dawns”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

(colloquial) To form a mind meld; to create a deep connection with someone, as though combining into a single mind.


vibroblade

Perhaps the last sound they heard was each other's laughter; or perhaps it was the hum of vibroblades in the seconds before death.

2010, John Meaney, Absorption, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 129:

(science fiction) A weapon or tool with a rapidly vibrating blade.


vibroknife

Beneath my jacket, I tugged the vibroknife from its sheath in the small of my back and activated the motor. With my free hand I pressed down hard on the dead man's spine and started cutting.

2003, Richard Morgan, Broken Angels, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 75:

(science fiction) Synonym of vibroblade (“a weapon or tool with a rapidly vibrating blade”).


tri-V

Moki and Ukatonen weren't supposed to go out without Eerin or Analin, so they spent most of the day watching the Tri-V or listening to Analin and Eerin talk about them. It was fun at first, seeing themselves on the Tri-V, but they only showed the same few pictures and words.

1999, Amy Thomson, Through Alien Eyes, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 85:

(science fiction) A system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video.


trideo

en-noun

trideo (countable and uncountable, plural trideos)

Getting Karissa back to her cabin had been fairly easy, encountering only a few passengers along the way, who were too surprised by the chance encounter to ask for autographs or personal trideos with the star, especially as Grant kept her moving with a firm hand on her elbow.

2017, Veronica Scott, “Star Cruise: Songbird”, in Embrace the Romance: Pets in Space 2, →ISBN, page 381:

(science fiction) A three-dimensional video.

His father had been Prime Minister for the last twelve years. There had been puff pieces about Randal on the trideo since he was a child.

2011, J. Wesley Bush, Knox's Irregulars, →ISBN, page 78:

(science fiction) Synonym of tri-V (“a system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video”).


tri-vid

There should have been women in silver suits taking in a show at the tri-vids before indulging in a spot of lunch, the kind that came in three-course pills, great big subservient robots trailing behind them. Instead there was a brown man in overalls collecting rubbish with a long stick outside an adult cinema, and the cars were halted, bumper-to-bumper, beside a traffic light that seemed to be stuck permanently on red.

2011, Lavie Tidhar, Osama: A Novel, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Solaris, published 2012, →ISBN, page 233:


mutie

Manuel waded through rivulets of the dirty water. It steamed away or gurgled into cracks. Some muties were so addled that they kept slurping at the runoff even though the hunt was storming past, the thumps and snaps of men firing clear in the air.

1983, Gregory Benford, Against Infinity, New York, N.Y.: Avon Eos, published 1998, →ISBN, page 108:


neurolink

The clone soldiers were given basic cognitive advancement via neurolinks while they were still in the tanks.

2010, Alex Irvine, Iron Man: Virus, London: Titan Books, →ISBN, page 32:

(science fiction) A technology that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer.


tridim

By the time they got to the Wrapateria the line of kids snaked down the block. The usual jokers were taking tri-dims of the crowd and playing them back to each other.

2005, Karen Haber, Crossing Infinity, New York, N.Y.: ibooks, →ISBN, page 51:

(science fiction) Synonym of trideo (“a three-dimensional video”).

I entered theaters where the happy lotus eaters sat slumped in their massage chairs, transfixed by the glowing tridim images—and capered down the aisles. No one grumbled at me.

1963, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Earth in Transit, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., published 1976, page 59:


plastiskin

Gavin's supple, plastiskin face was somber, his voice subdued. Ursula could tell that he had been doing a lot of thinking.

1986, David Brin, “Lungfish”, in The River of Time, Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, →ISBN, page 340:

(science fiction) synthetic skin, especially that of an android.


organlegger

Blend of organ + bootlegger (“an illegal trader of goods, especially of alcohol”).

blend

Owen lay dead in the bloody snow, his noble body gashed and punctured in many places, and soaked in his own gore. And that was how the organleggers found him.

2004, Simon R[ichard] Green, Deathstalker Return, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 404:

(science fiction) Someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.


Loonie

"I used to hate Loonies. All Odans do. But in my opinion, only the Jupiters and generals and Committee members are truly awful. The rest of you are . . . tolerable. And you? Definitely more than tolerable."

2015, Karen Bao, Dove Arising, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 309:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon.


prespace

"No way to tell now," Miram admitted. "Lots of space junk around the second planet, though. Could be native, an example of a prespace culture making the transition, but the debris could also be the results of a mining operation or something else I have no frame of reference for."

2016, Evan Currie, Warrior King, Seattle, O.R.: 47North, →ISBN, page 233:

(science fiction) Of a civilization: having yet to develop space travel.


telekineticist

"Kids—like girls and boys?" Squid asks. "I've only ever heard of female telekineticists."

2017, Corey J. White, Killing Gravity, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 67:

(science fiction, fantasy) Someone who has the ability to move objects with their mind; a telekinetic.


telescanner

"If you or Dr. Rankin cares to start a search program with the telescanner, you have my blessing."

1985, Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, Emprise, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 259:

(science fiction) A scanner, especially one able to collect information from far away.


telempathy

"Telempathy is a skill that so far exists only in legends and rumors," Sue says. "To be able to master it would be something immensely valuable to the Sekhem."

2013, C[ynthia] J[aynes] Omololu, Intuition, New York, N.Y. […]: Walker Books, →ISBN, page 213:

(parapsychology, science fiction) The paranormal ability to sense the emotions of others; empathy.


sub-ether

en-noun

sub-ether (countable and uncountable, plural sub-ethers)

(science fiction) Alternative form of subether


telempath

"Very brave of you, but the ancient dragons of the Circle are very powerful telempaths and often use mind control on dragons untrained in mental battle. I will teach you how to protect your mind and fight a telepathic battle just in case you ever encounter one of their enforcers, or a human wizard."

2010, Susan Trombley, Princess's Dragon, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 60:

(parapsychology, science fiction) Someone able to sense the emotions of others by paranormal means; someone who has the power of telempathy.


subetherics

That surprised Ariel. ""We don't even know how he died." / "Gruesomely, according to the subetherics. Crushed." He glanced sidelong at her. "Sound familiar?"

2002, Mark W. Tiedemann, Aurora, New York, N.Y>, →ISBN, page 32:

(science fiction) Devices able to communicate using the subether ("a fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel"), considered collectively.


threevee

The demon paused before answering, as though listening to an internal voice. Seen up close, he too was slightly blurred — like a threevee picture in the middle of a bad day for sunspots, Kin thought.

1981, Terry Pratchett, Strata, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 157:

She loved to sit with me when three or four of us went to the Blue Sea, to the Bay of Lue, to threevees in the city, to musical shows, or just to eat iced meloncolion on the showy balconies of the comiche.

2016, John Argo, Moon Berry Wine: A Far Future Science Fiction Novel, San Diego, C.A.: Clocktower Books, →ISBN, page 38:

(science fiction) A screen or television able to display a three-dimensional image.


subether

subether (countable and uncountable, plural subethers)

Her instrument panel was dead, not a single light across the con- sole on. Evidently the bdellium dish wasn't working. Either that, or the subether was still. Though the subether was never still, filled with voices from unimaginable distances.

1996, Michael Kandel, Panda Ray, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 134:

(science fiction) A fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel.


planetographer

From planet + -o- + -grapher, perhaps modelled off of cartographer.

In the century-plus since Eris was settled, we have already raised the temperature of its lithosphere by several degrees, just as we've thickened the atmosphere ot Callisto a thousandfold: if this goes on, the more annoyingly farsighted planetographers warn, we can look forward to an increased incidence ot icequakes and the threat of a year-round atmosphere.

2008, Charles Stross, Saturn's Children: A Space Opera, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 269:

(chiefly science fiction) Someone who studies planetography ("the branch of astronomy concerned with the description of the physical features of planets").


Terranian

Possibly Terra + -an + -ian, thus making the term redundant.

"How we've all longed for this glorious day! And thanks to our glorious Fire Reaper techno, all Terranians can join with us in our final triumph!"

2013, Patricia Robertson, The Fire Reapers, Whitehorse, Y.T.: Linnaea Press, →ISBN, page 370:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth.


Terranian

The first operator spoke no Terranian languages at all. The second one could only speak French and German.

1954 May, Bill Wesley, “The Primus Curse”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Fiction House, page 53:

(science fiction) Relating to Earth or its people.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) Relating to the Tau Ceti system or its people.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Tau Ceti system.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) The fictional language spoken in the Tau Ceti system.


telempathic

I did a telempathic analysis of Leo a few weeks back. He was in a difficult situation. Easily twice as intelligent than his family and school mates. I knew he was desperate for just about any kind of change in his life.

2007, Hugh A[lan] D[ouglas] Spencer, “When Bloomsbury Fails”, in Why I Hunt Flying Saucers & Other Fantasticals: A Science Fiction Short Story Retrospective, Milton, O.N.: Brain Lag, published 2016, →ISBN, page 218:

(parapsychology, science fiction) Relating to or involving telempathy ("the paranormal ability to sense the emotions of others").


spacedog

But Station Yorick's customers liked that first interview. The grizzled old spacedog, pipe in mouth, glass in hand, spinning a yarn.... […]

1980 April, A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, Asimov's Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97:

(science fiction) A person experienced in space travel.


imagescreen

As they ate, Hallvard told their visitors what had happened in the City and what they‘d seen on the imagescreen in his cell in the Temple.

2013, Patricia Robertson, The Fire Reapers, Whitehorse, Y.T.: Linnaea Press, →ISBN, page 388:

(rare, sometimes in science fiction) A screen capable of displaying images.


teleportering

teleportering (indefinite nominative singular)
teleporterings (genitive indefinite singular)
teleporteringen (definite nominative singular)
teleporteringens (definite genitive singular)
teleporteringar (indefinite nominative plural)
teleporteringars (genitive indefinite plural)
teleporteringarna (definite nominative plural)
teleporteringarnas (definite genitive plural)


màquina del temps

ca-noun

màquina del temps f (plural màquines del temps)


mooncrete

He gestured at the mooncrete. "Great stuff, huh? And another case of the Builders showing off. They not only make us a moon; they make us one that will remain forever new."

1988, David F Nighbert, Timelapse, Headline, →ISBN, page 159:

The driver slowed down to a crawl; the vehicle's inflated wheels bumped slightly as they moved onto a mooncrete ramp, then the bus began rolling downward toward a pair of double doors.

2007, Allen Steele, Spindrift, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 20:

The design emphasized the use of extra-terrestrial materials preferably from the Moon. "Mooncrete" – or lunar concrete – should be produced by processing lunar rocks in a factory.

2017 March, Werner Grandl, “Human life in the Solar System”, in REACH, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

An otherworldly project is underway. A researcher at the University of Miami is currently making "mooncrete," a material he hopes to perfect for building a habitable base on the moon.

2019 July 25, Tate Jacaruso, “Thanks To A Miami Researcher We Might Actually Be Building A Habitable Base On The Moon Soon”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 2021-06-14:

Synonym of lunarcrete (“a hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon”).


groundsider

Near the main airlock she foimd Tregare arguing loudly with persons she had never seen—groundsiders here, she thought.

1976, F[rancis] M[arion] Busby, Rissa Kerguelen, Berkley Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 67:

Coming back groundside, you always felt the dissociation. They shouldn't have brought him all the way back here; they should have left him out at a Jupiter station, or somewhere his own kind were. These groundsiders were the real aliens. He couldn't make any connections with contemporary Earth—this wasn't the America he remembered.

1988, Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Outpassage, New York, N.Y.: Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 7:

Trinli paused a second, holding his place with one hand while his whole body quivered with the need for crampons and ropes, and pitons driven solid into the walls around him. Lord. It had been a long time since his groundsider orientation had come back this strongly. He moved forward. Forward. Not up.

1999, Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 109:

The server was cute, and I wondered how she got here, because her physique was groundsider, even more than mine. She had a wedge do with blond highlights and was cheerful without being icky.

2016, Michael Z. Williamson, Angeleyes, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 118:

(science fiction) Someone who lives on the ground (as opposed to space).


planetsider

Todd knew billions of planetsiders were watching, most of Earth. What would they make of this? They had to take the threat seriously. Pat had to make them understand—as he hadn't made them imderstand the true significance of the alien messenger.

1981, Juanita Coulson, Tomorrow's Heritage, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 349:

Her chest was hurting already — no star-traveller had the stamina to outrun a planetsider—and she knew she could not keep up her pace for much longer.

1985, Melissa Scott, Five-Twelfths of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 307:

The passers-by were mostly planetsiders, some so recent you could see they had trouble handling low-G movement.

1989, Larry Niven, Man-Kzin Wars II, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 216:

"So youre not a planetsider." Raine laughed. "A dirtgrubber? Of course not. I'm from the Habitat. Gryphon torus."

2011, Garth Nix, A Confusion of Princes, London: HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN, page 209:

(science fiction) Someone who lives on a planet.


landsider

What else but the quest for knowledge would tempt a sane person away from a comfortable home? What else would persuade a landsider to take to the ocean, except the chance of getting to meet more strangers in a shorter time?

1983, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 103:

He wanted to stop at Petra's bunk and tell her about his home, about what his birthdays were usually like, just tell her it was his birthday so she'd say something about it being a happy one. But nobody told birthdays. It was childish. It was what landsiders did.

1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

We'll be going out with the tide, with an extra five knot of current running where the river is usually slowest. I just thought you might be in a hurry to move at this end, what with the way your friends are keeping out of sight down with the codfish smell. The way I hear tell, you landsider don't favor fish odor too much.

1987, Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 82:

Not a man I'd trust alone with her, you understand. Not a man I trust entirely on anything—too involved with the landsiders, the traders, the political people.

1988, Thomas T[hurston] Thomas, An Honorable Defense, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 108:

It is easy for the landsider to forget that seafarers came in many disguises. We tend to think of officers and ratings — deck sailors. We might, if pricked, think about the engine room crew — who with the onset of oil, then diesel, just kept on shrinking per ship.

1993, Tim Madge, Long Voyage Home: True Stories From Britain's Twilight Maritime Years, London […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 146:

(chiefly science fiction or fantasy) Someone who lives on land (as opposed to the sea or space).


paragade

(fandom slang, video games) A play style in the Mass Effect series in which options from both the paragon and renegade orientations are selected about equally.


moonship

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The space agency has requested the Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. to develop a method for controlling trace contaminants inside a spacecraft. […] Unlike the Earth's atmosphere, the air inside a moonship doesn't get cleaned by rains or winds.

1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, pages 22–24:

Other kits were for making aeroplanes, one a scale model of the Scandinavian Air Lines Douglas D.C.-8 which was expected to make the first flight from Britain to Los Angeles in April 1960. There was also a moonship of a type which the firm said will eventually reach the moon: all of which goes to show that sometimes toys precede the actual event and are not necessarily mementoes which come afterwards.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 144:

(astronautics, science fiction) A spaceship designed for travelling to the Moon.


trimensional

It is owing to this fundamental fact that the two retinal images of the same trimensional object are slightly different from each other, and this difference is technically called lateral disparity.

1920, Hubert Gruender, An Introductory Course in Experimental Psychology: […], volume I, Chicago, I.L.: Loyola University Press, page 175:

Sutt indicated the trimensional star-map on the table. He adjusted the controls and a cluster of some half-dozen stellar systems blazed red.

1944 August, Isaac Asimov, “The Big and the Little”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XXXIII, number 6, page 8:

Photographic aggregates, as stated previously, can be made which produce single images with all the attributes of stereoscopic vision and which the writer termed "trimensional images." […] Trimensional pictures, the writer is certain, will replace the present geometric pictures as a matter of course. The trimensional perspective will lend a touch of amazing reality to photographs and reproductions of any and all kinds whatsoever.

1949 August, Theodore Nakken, “The Great Enigma: The Stereoscopic Perspective”, in International Projectionist, volume 24, number 8, New York, N.Y.: International Projectionist Publishing Co., Inc., →OCLC, page 25:

Haskell turned to the captain's desk, studied the trimensional photograph of an Ermesian native. A big creature—over seven feet tall—and heavy, with thick, short legs, hairy torso, long muscular arms terminating in broad, flat hands with multi-jointed fingers tipped with retractile, vermilion-dyed claws.

1950 August, Bernard I. Kahn, “A Pinch of Culture”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume XLV, page 90, column 1:

Since Sam had another son who was about three years old, he was interested in the quality of children's fare on television. He could see that my trimensional animation process would be perfect for children's films.

1986, Art Clokey, “Foreward”, in Gumby: The Authorized Biography of the World's Favorite Clayboy, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 2, column 1:

A trimensional scan showed only cuts, bruises and a small fracture in her kneecap. All of the injuries were easily treated.

1996, W[illiam] R[och] Thompson, Infiltrator, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 223:

(chiefly science fiction) Three-dimensional.


Taygetan

Citheron shouts;—gives tongue Taygetan hound; / And Epidaurus for the break renown’d: / While echoing groves reverberate the sound.

1852, [Virgil], translated by E. Cobbold, The Georgics of Virgil (in Heroic Couplets). […], London: E. Lumley, book III, lines 61–63, page 105:

Of or pertaining to the Taygetos mountain range in Greece.


Taygetan

Of, from, or pertaining to the star system Taygeta in the Pleiades star cluster.


Taygetan

An alien being from the vicinity of Taygeta.


Marsscape

These pictures reveal, in the bright region west of the Sinus Meridiani, a totally unexpected Marscape of confused terrain that is like nothing man has seen on Earth, moon, or Mars before.

1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, page 22:

(astronomy, science fiction) A view of an area of Mars; a Martian landscape.


autofactory

He had a moment's vision of the Inland Sea, blue through coastal haze. There were bobbles around the advanced estates, around the NM quarter of town. To the west were several large ones—around the autofactories? Everything was in stasis except the Korolev estate.

1986, Vernor Vinge, “Marooned in Realtime”, in Across Realtime, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 312:

"If we used Phobos as the entrapping vehicle," Cocci mused, "we could establish a base on Mars, a dome city. We could even set up an autofactory there to support the work."

1986, Thomas Wren, The Doomsday Effect, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 103:

Another tunnel took her through to a chamber from which many such tunnels debarked and thence to the small tubular autofactory that had made her.

2016, Neal Asher, War Factory (Transformation; 2), New York, N.Y.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, page 406:

(science fiction) A factory capable of running autonomously.


autofac

Behind them, the dilapidated settlement lay spread out, a disorderly checkerboard of houses, buildings and streets. Since the autofac network had closed down its supply and maintenance, the human settlements had fallen into semi-barbarism.

1955 November, Philip K[indred] Dick, “Autofac”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 11, number 2, page 87:

The autofacs were a different kind of machine altogether. They could make things. They could make anything from clothing to robots, from weapons to music machines.

1974, Edmund Cooper, The Slaves of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Medallion, published 1975, →ISBN, page 57:

All around her the holo displays glowed faintly. Even some of the units that had gone blank over her long sleep were replaced, now that she and Jeffers had gotten the autofac working properly up on A Level.

1986, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Heart of the Comet, Toronto, O.N. […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 327:

(science fiction) Synonym of autofactory (“a factory capable of running autonomously”).


космодесант

ru-noun+

космодеса́нт

космодеса́нт • (kosmodesánt) m anim (genitive космодеса́нта, nominative plural космодеса́нты, genitive plural космодеса́нтов)

космодеса́нт (canonical)
kosmodesánt (romanization)
космодеса́нта (genitive)
космодеса́нты (nominative plural)
космодеса́нтов (genitive plural)
космодеса́нт (nominative singular)
космодеса́нты (nominative plural)
космодеса́нта (genitive singular)
космодеса́нтов (genitive plural)
космодеса́нту (dative singular)
космодеса́нтам (dative plural)
космодеса́нта (accusative singular)
космодеса́нтов (accusative plural)
космодеса́нтом (instrumental singular)
космодеса́нтами (instrumental plural)
космодеса́нте (prepositional singular)
космодеса́нтах (plural prepositional)

From ко́смос (kósmos, “space”) + деса́нт (desánt, “landing troops”).

af

Мы космодеса́нты, и мы не бу́дем знать стра́ха.

We are the Space Marines, and we shall know no fear.

My kosmodesánty, i my ne búdem znatʹ stráxa.

Бро́ня космодеса́нта помога́ет ему́ ориенти́роваться на вулкани́ческой плане́те.

The Space Marine's armour helps him navigate the volcanic planet.

Brónja kosmodesánta pomogájet jemú orijentírovatʹsja na vulkaníčeskoj planéte.


інопланетянин

uk-noun

інопланетя́нин<pr.in>

інопланетя́нка

інопланетя́нин • (inoplanetjányn) m pers (genitive інопланетя́нина, nominative plural інопланетя́ни, genitive plural інопланетя́н, feminine інопланетя́нка)

інопланетя́нин (canonical)
inoplanetjányn (romanization)
інопланетя́нина (genitive)
інопланетя́ни (nominative plural)
інопланетя́н (genitive plural)
інопланетя́нка (feminine)
інопланетя́нин (nominative singular)
інопланетя́ни (nominative plural)
інопланетя́нина (genitive singular)
інопланетя́н (genitive plural)
інопланетя́нинові (dative singular)
інопланетя́нину (dative singular)
інопланетя́нам (dative plural)
інопланетя́нина (accusative singular)
інопланетя́н (accusative plural)
інопланетя́нином (instrumental singular)
інопланетя́нами (instrumental plural)
інопланетя́нинові (locative singular)
інопланетя́нині (locative singular)
інопланетя́нах (locative plural)
інопланетя́нине (singular vocative)
інопланетя́ни (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

інопланетя́нин<pr.in>

From інший (inšyj, “different”) + -о- (-o-) + плане́та (planéta, “planet”) + -я́нин (-jányn). Compare Russian инопланетя́нин (inoplanetjánin).

cog

инопланетя́нин


чужопланетянин

uk-noun

чужопланетя́нин<pr.in>

чужопланетя́нка

чужопланетя́нин • (čužoplanetjányn) m pers (genitive чужопланетя́нина, nominative plural чужопланетя́ни, genitive plural чужопланетя́н, feminine чужопланетя́нка)

чужопланетя́нин (canonical)
čužoplanetjányn (romanization)
чужопланетя́нина (genitive)
чужопланетя́ни (nominative plural)
чужопланетя́н (genitive plural)
чужопланетя́нка (feminine)
чужопланетя́нин (nominative singular)
чужопланетя́ни (nominative plural)
чужопланетя́нина (genitive singular)
чужопланетя́н (genitive plural)
чужопланетя́нинові (dative singular)
чужопланетя́нину (dative singular)
чужопланетя́нам (dative plural)
чужопланетя́нина (accusative singular)
чужопланетя́н (accusative plural)
чужопланетя́нином (instrumental singular)
чужопланетя́нами (instrumental plural)
чужопланетя́нинові (locative singular)
чужопланетя́нині (locative singular)
чужопланетя́нах (locative plural)
чужопланетя́нине (singular vocative)
чужопланетя́ни (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

чужопланетя́нин<pr.in>

From чужи́й (čužýj, “alien, foreign”) + -о- (-o-) + плане́та (planéta, “planet”) + -я́нин (-jányn).


light barrier

On the grounds that special relativity predicts that no object can travel faster than light. Compare sound barrier.

The speed of light, seen as a barrier to faster-than-light travel.


სუპერგმირი

ka-noun

სუპერგმირები

სუპერგმირი • (suṗergmiri) (plural სუპერგმირები)

suṗergmiri (romanization)
სუპერგმირები (plural)
სუპერგმირი (nominative singular)
სუპერგმირები (nominative plural)
სუპერგმირნი (archaic nominative plural)
სუპერგმირმა (ergative singular)
სუპერგმირებმა (ergative plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერგმირთაt) (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერგმირთაta) (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერგმირს (dative singular)
სუპერგმირს (dative singular)
სუპერგმირსაs) (dative singular)
სუპერგმირსაsa) (dative singular)
სუპერგმირებს (dative plural)
სუპერგმირებს (dative plural)
სუპერგმირებსაs) (dative plural)
სუპერგმირებსაsa) (dative plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic dative plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic dative plural)
სუპერგმირთაt) (archaic dative plural)
სუპერგმირთაta) (archaic dative plural)
სუპერგმირის (genitive singular)
სუპერგმირის (genitive singular)
სუპერგმირისაs) (genitive singular)
სუპერგმირისაsa) (genitive singular)
სუპერგმირების (genitive plural)
სუპერგმირების (genitive plural)
სუპერგმირებისაs) (genitive plural)
სუპერგმირებისაsa) (genitive plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერგმირთ (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერგმირთაt) (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერგმირთაta) (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერგმირით (instrumental singular)
სუპერგმირით (instrumental singular)
სუპერგმირითაt) (instrumental singular)
სუპერგმირითაta) (instrumental singular)
სუპერგმირებით (instrumental plural)
სუპერგმირებით (instrumental plural)
სუპერგმირებითაt) (instrumental plural)
სუპერგმირებითაta) (instrumental plural)
სუპერგმირად (adverbial singular)
სუპერგმირად (adverbial singular)
სუპერგმირადაd) (adverbial singular)
სუპერგმირადაda) (adverbial singular)
სუპერგმირებად (adverbial plural)
სუპერგმირებად (adverbial plural)
სუპერგმირებადაd) (adverbial plural)
სუპერგმირებადაda) (adverbial plural)
სუპერგმირო (singular vocative)
სუპერგმირებო (plural vocative)
სუპერგმირნო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე
სუპერგმირზე (singular)
სუპერგმირებზე (plural)
-თან
სუპერგმირთან (singular)
სუპერგმირებთან (plural)
-ში
სუპერგმირში (singular)
სუპერგმირებში (plural)
-ვით
სუპერგმირივით (singular)
სუპერგმირებივით (plural)
-თვის
სუპერგმირისთვის (singular)
სუპერგმირებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ
სუპერგმირისებრ (singular)
სუპერგმირებისებრ (plural)
-კენ
სუპერგმირისკენ (singular)
სუპერგმირებისკენ (plural)
-გან
სუპერგმირისგან (singular)
სუპერგმირებისგან (plural)
-ადმი
სუპერგმირისადმი (singular)
სუპერგმირებისადმი (plural)
-დან
სუპერგმირიდან (singular)
სუპერგმირებიდან (plural)
-ურთ
სუპერგმირითურთ (singular)
სუპერგმირებითურთ (plural)
-მდე
სუპერგმირამდე (singular)
სუპერგმირებამდე (plural)

სუ‧პერ‧გმი‧რი


Xfic

en-noun

Xfic (countable and uncountable, plural Xfics)

I have just completed an Xfic, and would like to post it to get some feedback. The story is in 9 parts, with some parts up to 2000 words. Is 2000 words acceptible^([sic]) for a posting length, or should I break the longer parts into smaller lengths for posting?

1997 February 26, Sean, “posting length query”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(countable, fandom slang) A fanfic based on The X-Files television series.


rymdinvasion

rymdinvasion (indefinite nominative singular)
rymdinvasions (genitive indefinite singular)
rymdinvasionen (definite nominative singular)
rymdinvasionens (definite genitive singular)
rymdinvasioner (indefinite nominative plural)
rymdinvasioners (genitive indefinite plural)
rymdinvasionerna (definite nominative plural)
rymdinvasionernas (definite genitive plural)


силове поле

uk-noun

силове́<+> по́ле<c.genpl:полі́в:піль>

силове́ по́ле • (sylové póle) n inan (genitive силово́го по́ля, nominative plural силові́ поля́, genitive plural силови́х полі́в or силови́х пі́ль)

силове́ по́ле (canonical)
sylové póle (romanization)
силово́го по́ля (genitive)
силові́ поля́ (nominative plural)
силови́х полі́в (genitive plural)
силови́х пі́ль (genitive plural)
силове́ по́ле (nominative singular)
силові́ поля́ (nominative plural)
силово́го по́ля (genitive singular)
силови́х полі́в (genitive plural)
силови́х пі́ль (genitive plural)
силово́му по́лю (dative singular)
силови́м поля́м (dative plural)
силове́ по́ле (accusative singular)
силові́ поля́ (accusative plural)
силови́м по́лем (instrumental singular)
силови́ми поля́ми (instrumental plural)
силово́му по́лю (locative singular)
силово́му по́лі (locative singular)
силові́м по́лю (locative singular)
силові́м по́лі (locative singular)
силови́х поля́х (locative plural)
силове́ по́ле (singular vocative)
силові́ поля́ (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

силове́<+> по́ле<c.genpl:полі́в:піль>

[seɫɔˈʋɛ ˈpɔɫe]


سايبورغ

ar-noun

سَايْبُورْغ • (sāybūrḡ) m

سَايْبُورْغ (canonical)
sāybūrḡ (romanization)


decopunk

The walls are bedecked with improbable decopunk contraptions, a chrome rocket hangs above the entrance, and the servers are uniformed in snappy Eastern European military outfits, like crew members of a visiting zeppelin.

2012 February, David Dudley, “Lost City Diner”, in Urbanite, page 57:

Join Valente, bestselling author of the Fairyland series, for a talk on Radiance, a decopunk pulp sci fi alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own.

2015 October 28, “Phoenix Books Presents”, in Seven Days, page 52:

Although it represents an underdeveloped derivative of cyberpunk, decopunk appears a more adequate descriptor for Bioshock's visual and design aesthetic, both externally and internally.

2018, Gareth Schott, “What or Who is behind Rapture? Experimentation, Social Engineering, and Bio-Hacking in Bioshock”, in Felan Parker, Jessica Aldred, editors, Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, page 226:

A subset of the dieselpunk science fiction genre and aesthetic that incorporates Art Deco elements and other aspects of the technology, culture, and fashion of the 1920s-1930s.


隨意門

/t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ jiː³³ muːn²¹/

/t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ jiː³³ muːn²¹/

(Hong Kong, science fiction) teleportation portal


'saur

—genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.'

2003, Ken MacLeod, Engine City, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 79:

The city-folk had learned not to run screaming at the sight of a 'saur with a human being on it, but they were still in sufficient awe that trouble was unlikely.

2006, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, The Sky People, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 75:

Are there other good candidates for a collective term? Mesosaur might work. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other saurs all lived during the Mesozoic Era – the age of reptiles – 252 to 66 million years ago.

[2014 September 30, JV Chamary, “Paleosaurs: A Solution To The Dinosaur Dilemma?”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

The bird comes cartwheeling out of the forest in a flurry of feathers and leathery wings. Only as it lands, crashing into the reeds at the edge of the river, does Willem realize that it is not a bird, but a winged saur.

2015, Brian Falkner, Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 67:

Who better to prank with dinosaurs than the king of 'saurs himself?

2015 June 16, Allison Bagg, “These Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scared The Sh*t Out Of Chris Pratt”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 2023-06-28:

And her most recent tune, "Dinosaurs in Love," is about a pair of smitten 'saurs who find themselves dining at a party just before the apocalyptic event that wiped-out their race.

2020 January 29, Hannah Sparks, “3-year-old sings heartbreaking song about ’Dinosaurs in Love’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-30:

(informal or science fiction, fantasy) A dinosaur.


aquan

From Middle English aqua (borrowed from Latin aqua) + -n (adjective and inhabitant suffix).

af

borrowed from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">aqua</i>

One of the patrol enforcers, "hubbers" as they were known, that were bustling about stopped to give a sympathetic burble. They were an aquan, living in a pressure suit that kept them suspended in water.

2020, Thomas Parrott, “To Catch a Thief”, in Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells, editor, KeyForge: Tales from the Crucible, page 155:

(science fiction, rare) An inhabitant of the sea.


гіперпростір

uk-noun

гіперпро́стір<sg.io.loci>

гіперпро́стір • (hiperpróstir) m inan (genitive гіперпро́стору, uncountable)

гіперпро́стір (canonical)
hiperpróstir (romanization)
гіперпро́стору (genitive)
гіперпро́стір (nominative singular)
гіперпро́стору (genitive singular)
гіперпро́сторові (dative singular)
гіперпро́стору (dative singular)
гіперпро́стір (accusative singular)
гіперпро́стором (instrumental singular)
гіперпро́сторі (locative singular)
гіперпро́сторе (singular vocative)

uk-ndecl

гіперпро́стір<sg.io.loci>

From гіпер- (hiper-) + про́стір (próstir).


उड़न तश्तरी

hi-noun

اُڑَن تَشْتَری

उड़न तश्तरी • (uṛan taśtarī) f (Urdu spelling اُڑَن تَشْتَری)

uṛan taśtarī (romanization)
اُڑَن تَشْتَری (Urdu)
उड़न तश्तरी (direct singular)
उड़न तश्तरियाँ (direct plural)
उड़न तश्तरी (oblique singular)
उड़न तश्तरियों (oblique plural)
उड़न तश्तरी (singular vocative)
उड़न तश्तरियो (plural vocative)

/ʊ.ɽən t̪əʃ.t̪ə.ɾiː/

[ʊ.ɽɐ̃n‿t̪ɐʃ.t̪ɐ.ɾiː]

उड़न (uṛan, “flying”) + तश्तरी (taśtarī, “saucer, plate”)

अज्ञात आकाशयान

ajñāt ākāśyān


სუპერბოროტმოქმედი

ka-noun

სუპერბოროტმოქმედები

სუპერბოროტმოქმედი • (suṗerboroṭmokmedi) (plural სუპერბოროტმოქმედები)

suṗerboroṭmokmedi (romanization)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედები (plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედი (nominative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედები (nominative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედნი (archaic nominative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედმა (ergative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებმა (ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაt) (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაta) (archaic ergative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედს (dative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედს (dative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედსაs) (dative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედსაsa) (dative singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებს (dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებს (dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებსაs) (dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებსაsa) (dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაt) (archaic dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაta) (archaic dative plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედის (genitive singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედის (genitive singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისაs) (genitive singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისაsa) (genitive singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედების (genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედების (genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისაs) (genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისაsa) (genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთ (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაt) (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთაta) (archaic genitive plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედით (instrumental singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედით (instrumental singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედითაt) (instrumental singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედითაta) (instrumental singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებით (instrumental plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებით (instrumental plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებითაt) (instrumental plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებითაta) (instrumental plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედად (adverbial singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედად (adverbial singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედადაd) (adverbial singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედადაda) (adverbial singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებად (adverbial plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებად (adverbial plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებადაd) (adverbial plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებადაda) (adverbial plural)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედო (singular vocative)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებო (plural vocative)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედნო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე
სუპერბოროტმოქმედზე (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებზე (plural)
-თან
სუპერბოროტმოქმედთან (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებთან (plural)
-ში
სუპერბოროტმოქმედში (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებში (plural)
-ვით
სუპერბოროტმოქმედივით (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებივით (plural)
-თვის
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისთვის (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისებრ (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისებრ (plural)
-კენ
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისკენ (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისკენ (plural)
-გან
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისგან (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისგან (plural)
-ადმი
სუპერბოროტმოქმედისადმი (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებისადმი (plural)
-დან
სუპერბოროტმოქმედიდან (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებიდან (plural)
-ურთ
სუპერბოროტმოქმედითურთ (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებითურთ (plural)
-მდე
სუპერბოროტმოქმედამდე (singular)
სუპერბოროტმოქმედებამდე (plural)

სუ‧პერ‧ბო‧როტ‧მოქ‧მე‧დი


morpher

(science fiction, fantasy) A shapeshifter.


battlecraft

en-noun

battlecraft (countable and uncountable, plural battlecraft or battlecrafts)

battlecraft (plural)
battlecrafts (plural)

(countable, chiefly science fiction) A spacecraft or other vehicle used for combat.


水星人

ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄖㄣˊ

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/sɵy̯³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/sɵy̯³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

(science fiction) Mercurian (inhabitant of Mercury)


水星人

水星人 (canonical)
suiseijin (romanization)

[sɨise̞ːʑĩɴ]

水星 (Suisei, “Mercury”) + 人 (-jin, “human”)

suf

(science fiction) a Mercurian (inhabitant of Mercury)


bioborg

I am served brusquely, and wait until the bioborgs kill Lao Tzu. I swap a Carlton for a match, and devise a telephone strategy brilliant enough to reduce hardened Tokyo PAs to putty.

2001, David Mitchell, number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A biologically-based cyborg


boarding craft

en-noun

boarding craft (plural boarding crafts or boarding craft)

boarding crafts (plural)
boarding craft (plural)

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‘Squids,’ the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft.

1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157:

Sir, additional contacts. Boarding crafts, and lots of 'em!

2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:

A Colicoid creation (like the droideka), this Separatist boarding craft looks like a flying spike—until that spike divides into four sharp prongs that can stab through an enemy hull, revealing a central hatch used by a boarding party.

2008 July 26, Jason Fry, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide, Dorling Kindersley, →LCCN, page 105:

(science fiction) A starship designed to allow soldiers to board an enemy vessel


niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający

pl-noun

niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający m inan

niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający (nominative singular)
niezidentyfikowane obiekty latające (nominative plural)
niezidentyfikowanego obiektu latającego (genitive singular)
niezidentyfikowanym obiektom latającym (dative plural)
niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający (accusative singular)
niezidentyfikowane obiekty latające (accusative plural)
niezidentyfikowanym obiektem latającym (instrumental singular)
niezidentyfikowanym obiekcie latającym (locative singular)
niezidentyfikowany obiekcie latający (singular vocative)
niezidentyfikowane obiekty latające (plural vocative)

Calque of English unidentified flying object.

cal

unidentified flying object
unidentified flying object

(science fiction, ufology) UFO, unidentified flying object


antilithium

Heavy antinuclei, if observed, would also indicate that nucleosynthetic processes are taking place in these antimatter regions, since the usual matter-symmetric cosmologies have no other provision for manufacturing antimatter heavier than antilithium.

1987, Luis W. Alvarez, Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 194:

The pinhead contained only a twentieth of a gramme of antilithium, but that's more than sufficient for our purposes.

2009, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Orion, →ISBN:

Even unshielded, it would take antilithium or highmatter to cut through the adamantine plate on the dorsal hull.

2020, Christopher Ruocchio, Demon In White: Book 3, Orion, →ISBN:

(physics, science fiction) The antiatom form of lithium.


airtram

(chiefly science fiction) An aerial tram (type of passenger vehicle).


skyfish

(ufology) Synonym of rod (“rod-shaped optical phenomenon”)


infohazardous

en-adj

infohazardous (comparative more infohazardous, superlative most infohazardous)

more infohazardous (comparative)
most infohazardous (superlative)

(neurology, chiefly science fiction) Being, containing, or pertaining to a infohazard.


antimemetic

antimemetic (comparative more antimemetic, superlative most antimemetic)

more antimemetic (comparative)
most antimemetic (superlative)

From antimeme + -etic or anti- + memetic.

(neurology, sociology, chiefly science fiction) Of, being, containing, or pertaining to antimemes.


aéro-train

From aéro- + train. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.

(science fiction) Alternative spelling of aérotrain

In the Year 2889 (short story)
Michel Verne


overdeity

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Their liege —, the Undoing,—was the last to convene. He was a being of unknown descent, but Rune believed he was lt least a demigod. Perhaps a full deity, even an overdeity.

2015, Kresley Cole, Sweet Ruin, Simon & Schuster, pages 24-25:

Are there equivalent overdeities in other settings such as Eberron or Grayhawk? Like a top dog who gets to decide if someone can be a god or not as one of their jobs.

2020 May 29, CosmicWolf14, “Alabastor: Age of Heroes”, in reddit.com:

I generally assume that, whatever they are, you’re not going to face any problems with the local overdeities deciding you don’t belong and just noping you the moment you Jump in; whether that’s by power or negotiation is up to you.

2020 July 7, AmazonClimber, RandomOTP, “The Jumpchain Benefactor versus A Jump's Gods”, in reddit.com:

As I said overdeities don't require worship to survive, as such other Gods of Death can form without intruding, but they can't become a Overdeity of Death without somehow destroying the one currently there. As such they would more likely become another form of overdeity, assuming they get that far. And no Discord server as of yet, I might make one if the quest becomes more popular.

2021 April 29, nwish425, “Apotheosis - A Deity Quest”, in forums.sufficientvelocity.com:

(rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) A superior or supreme deity.


aéro-car

From aéro- + car. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.


aéro-omnibus

From aéro- + omnibus. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.


N7 Day

(fandom slang) An informal commemorative day observed annually on November 7 by Mass Effect fandom.


cryopod

He glanced at the scan display. The contact resolved into a clearer image: definitely a UNSC cryopod.

2003, Eric Nylund, Halo: First Strike, New York: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 38:

(science fiction) A pod in which a person is maintained in cryosleep.


ufok

ufok (nominative singular)
ufoki (nominative plural)
ufoka (genitive singular)
ufoków (genitive plural)
ufokowi (dative singular)
ufokom (dative plural)
ufoka (accusative singular)
ufoki (accusative plural)
ufokiem (instrumental singular)
ufokami (instrumental plural)
ufoku (locative singular)
ufokach (locative plural)
ufoku (singular vocative)
ufoki (plural vocative)

(colloquial, science fiction, ufology) alien, ET, extraterrestrial, LGM, little green man, space alien


zielony ludzik

zielony ludzik m pers or (animal-not-person canonical masculine)
zielony ludzik (nominative singular)
zielone ludziki (nominative plural)
zielonego ludzika (genitive singular)
zielonych ludzików (genitive plural)
zielonemu ludzikowi (dative singular)
zielonym ludzikom (dative plural)
zielonego ludzika (accusative singular)
zielone ludziki (accusative plural)
zielonym ludzikiem (instrumental singular)
zielonymi ludzikami (instrumental plural)
zielonym ludziku (locative singular)
zielonych ludzikach (locative plural)
zielony ludziku (singular vocative)
zielone ludziki (plural vocative)
zielony ludzik (nominative singular)
zielone ludziki (nominative plural)
zielonego ludzika (genitive singular)
zielonych ludzików (genitive plural)
zielonemu ludzikowi (dative singular)
zielonym ludzikom (dative plural)
zielonego ludzika (accusative singular)
zielonych ludzików (accusative plural)
zielonym ludzikiem (instrumental singular)
zielonymi ludzikami (instrumental plural)
zielonym ludziku (locative singular)
zielonych ludzikach (locative plural)
zielony ludziku (singular vocative)
zielone ludziki (plural vocative)

Literally, “little green man”. Compare Russian зелёные человечки (zeljónyje čelovečki), Ukrainian зелені чоловічки (zeleni čolovičky).

cog

зелёные человечки

зелені чоловічки

(humorous, idiomatic, science fiction, ufology) little green man (space alien)


holophone

The holophone beeped in that strange way that all phones did on Churchill Drift, before it was answered. Relief flooded through him when the holophone clicked on. Then dread filled him when an accented voice answered.

2011, Tom Bielawski, The Centaurus Legacy: The Orion Trilogy Volume 0:

The men appeared at Kid Squad headquarters in a holophone transmission. The holophone was a cool communication device that Gadget had helped invent.

2014, John Perritano, Madness of Captain Cyclops, page 24:

There was another chime and then the screen on the holophone dimmed and began to project a holographic image that was a still frame of a person who looked a lot like Jason.

2019, Robert Ricks, Three Simple Rules, page 43:

(science fiction) A hologrammatic telecommunication device.


latający dywan

latający dywan (nominative singular)
latające dywany (nominative plural)
latającego dywanu (genitive singular)
latających dywanów (genitive plural)
latającemu dywanowi (dative singular)
latającym dywanom (dative plural)
latający dywan (accusative singular)
latające dywany (accusative plural)
latającym dywanem (instrumental singular)
latającymi dywanami (instrumental plural)
latającym dywanie (locative singular)
latających dywanach (locative plural)
latający dywanie (singular vocative)
latające dywany (plural vocative)

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


nadświetlny

pl-adj

nadświetlny (not comparable, derived adverb nadświetlnie)

nadświetlny (masculine nominative singular)
nadświetlna (feminine nominative singular)
nadświetlne (neuter nominative singular)
nadświetlni (nominative plural virile)
nadświetlne (nominative plural)
nadświetlnego (genitive masculine singular)
nadświetlnej (feminine genitive singular)
nadświetlnego (genitive neuter singular)
nadświetlnych (genitive plural)
nadświetlnych (genitive plural virile)
nadświetlnemu (dative masculine singular)
nadświetlnej (dative feminine singular)
nadświetlnemu (dative neuter singular)
nadświetlnym (dative plural)
nadświetlnym (dative plural virile)
nadświetlnego (accusative animate masculine singular)
nadświetlny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
nadświetlną (accusative feminine singular)
nadświetlne (accusative neuter singular)
nadświetlnych (accusative plural virile)
nadświetlne (accusative plural)
nadświetlnym (instrumental masculine singular)
nadświetlną (feminine instrumental singular)
nadświetlnym (instrumental neuter singular)
nadświetlnymi (instrumental plural)
nadświetlnymi (instrumental plural virile)
nadświetlnym (locative masculine singular)
nadświetlnej (feminine locative singular)
nadświetlnym (locative neuter singular)
nadświetlnych (locative plural)
nadświetlnych (locative plural virile)

(physics, astronomy) faster-than-light, superluminal (faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, the theoretical speed limit for travel within the universe)


neurostunner

"She fries my synapses with a neurostunner whose insurance warranty ran out around the time of the Skytube, then she asks if I'm okay," he said, attempting to laugh but coughing instead.

1993, Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background:

I grabbed the neurostunner from the drawer — the kind allowed in the house, but not beyond its doors — and hurried toward the front door, querying the system.

2004, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Flash, page 178:

(science fiction) A weapon that stuns a person by affecting their nervous system.


untriquadium

systematic element name
systematic element name

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 134 (symbol Utq).


untriunium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 131 (symbol Utu).


untritrium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 133 (symbol Utt).


untrihexium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 136 (symbol Uth).


untribium

The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 132 (symbol Utb).