maantaa

maannan (first-person indicative present singular)
en maanna (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen maantanut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole maantanut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
maannat (indicative present second-person singular)
et maanna (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet maantanut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole maantanut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
maantaa (indicative present singular third-person)
ei maanna (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on maantanut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole maantanut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
maannamme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme maanna (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme maantaneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole maantaneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
maannatte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette maanna (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette maantaneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole maantaneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
maantavat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät maanna (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat maantaneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole maantaneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
maannetaan (indicative passive present)
ei maanneta (indicative negative passive present)
on maannettu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole maannettu (indicative negative passive perfect)
maansin (first-person indicative past singular)
en maantanut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin maantanut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut maantanut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
maansit (indicative past second-person singular)
et maantanut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit maantanut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut maantanut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
maansi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei maantanut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli maantanut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut maantanut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
maansimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme maantaneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme maantaneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet maantaneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
maansitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette maantaneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte maantaneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet maantaneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
maansivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät maantaneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat maantaneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet maantaneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
maannettiin (indicative passive past)
ei maannettu (indicative negative passive past)
oli maannettu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut maannettu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
maantaisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en maantaisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin maantanut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi maantanut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
maantaisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et maantaisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit maantanut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi maantanut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
maantaisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei maantaisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi maantanut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi maantanut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
maantaisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme maantaisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme maantaneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi maantaneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
maantaisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette maantaisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte maantaneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi maantaneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
maantaisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät maantaisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat maantaneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi maantaneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
maannettaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei maannettaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi maannettu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi maannettu (conditional negative passive perfect)
maanna (imperative present second-person singular)
älä maanna (imperative negative present second-person singular)
maantakoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön maantako (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon maantanut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko maantanut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
maantakaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme maantako (first-person imperative negative plural present)
maantakaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää maantako (imperative negative plural present second-person)
maantakoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt maantako (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot maantaneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko maantaneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
maannettakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön maannettako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon maannettu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko maannettu (imperative negative passive perfect)
maantanen (first-person potential present singular)
en maantane (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen maantanut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene maantanut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
maantanet (potential present second-person singular)
et maantane (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet maantanut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene maantanut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
maantanee (potential present singular third-person)
ei maantane (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee maantanut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene maantanut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
maantanemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme maantane (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme maantaneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene maantaneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
maantanette (plural potential present second-person)
ette maantane (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette maantaneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene maantaneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
maantanevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät maantane (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät maantaneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene maantaneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
maannettaneen (passive potential present)
ei maannettane (negative passive potential present)
lienee maannettu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene maannettu (negative passive perfect potential)
maantaa (infinitive infinitive-i)
maantava (active participle present)
maannettava (participle passive present)
maantaakseni (first-person possessive singular)
maantaaksemme (first-person plural possessive)
maantaaksesi (possessive second-person singular)
maantaaksenne (plural possessive second-person)
maantaakseen (possessive third-person)
maantaaksensa (possessive third-person)
maantanut (infinitive-i-long past)
maannettu (infinitive-i-long past)
maantaessa (inessive second-person)
maannettaessa (inessive second-person)
maantama (agent)
maantaessani (first-person possessive singular)
maantaessamme (first-person plural possessive)
maantaessasi (possessive second-person singular)
maantaessanne (plural possessive second-person)
maantaessaan (possessive third-person)
maantaessansa (possessive third-person)
maantamaton (inessive negative second-person)
maantaen (instructive second-person)
maantamassa (inessive third-person)
maantamasta (elative third-person)
maantamaan (illative third-person)
maantamalla (adessive third-person)
maantamatta (abessive third-person)
maantaman (instructive third-person)
maannettaman (instructive third-person)
maantaminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
maantamaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
maantamaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
maantamaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
maantamaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
maantamaisillaan (possessive third-person)
maantamaisillansa (possessive third-person)

[ˈmɑ̝ːn̪t̪ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]

(science fiction) to terraform (to transform the atmosphere or biosphere of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth)


contraterrene

/ˌkɒntɹətəˈɹiːn/

This means just one thing: the instant contraterrene matter struck ordinary matter, a terrific explosion would occur!

1952, Science Digest, volume 31, page 67:

Then I started jacking up the voltage, and modified the thing with a double-polarity field somewhat similar to the molecular motion field except that it works on a sub-nucleonic level. As a result, about half of the lead fed into the chamber became contraterrene lead! The atoms just turned themselves inside out, so to speak, giving us an atom with positrons circling a negatively charged nucleus.

1957, John W. Campbell, Islands of Space:

(obsolete in physics, science fiction) Made of or pertaining to antimatter.


xenolinguistics

(linguistics, science fiction) Study of a language originating from alien species.


needler

From Middle English nedlere, equivalent to needle + -er.

(chiefly science fiction) A gun that fires needles or darts.


raygun

(science fiction, weaponry) Alternative spelling of ray gun


transmat

Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere.

1959 June 14, Laurence Janifer, “Obey that Impulse!”, in Future Science Fiction, number 43, page 40:

Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats, heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents, […]

1970 June 14, Robert Silverberg, “The Tower of Glass”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 30, number 3, page 83:

TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor.
DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam?
TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.

1975, Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks (Doctor Who, season 12, serial 4), opening dialogue

You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.

1983, The Long Way Home (video game published with 16/48 Magazine)

LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.

2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who series 1, episode 12)

(British, science fiction) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.


transmat

en-verb

transmat (third-person singular simple present transmats, present participle transmatting, simple past and past participle transmatted)

transmats (present singular third-person)
transmatting (participle present)
transmatted (participle past)
transmatted (past)

It wasn't far enough away to think about transmatting and besides, that was no longer a viable option, what with vandals having wrecked some of the booths in the area.

1991, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Carmen Carter, Robert Greenberger, Doomsday World (Star Trek: The Next Generation; 12), Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 171:

'No, you're not,' Blandish put in smoothly 'You're transmatting down with me. I'll head the away team and I'll consent to let you advise.'

1999, Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad, The Blue Angel (Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 36:

Donna twisted her neck around to try to find the Doctor, but she realised that she'd been transmatted alone.

2010, Mark Michalowski, Shining Darkness (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 17:

(British, science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.


psychohistory

en-noun

psychohistory (countable and uncountable, plural psychohistories)

/sʌɪkəʊˈhɪstəɹi/

From psycho- + history.
* The science-fictional usage was created by Isaac Asimov in the mid-20th century.

(science fiction) A fictional mathematical statistical science of large population dynamics, where mathematical models can predict general futures, based on activities of quadrillions of individuals. The fictional science first occurs in Asimov's 1950s Foundation series, and has since been picked up by other authors for other works.


edisonade

From Edison + -ade, coined by Canadian author John Clute in 1993, after inventor Thomas Edison.

coin

(science fiction) A genre of science fiction and adventure fiction featuring a brilliant robust inventor, engineer or scientist hero who has an adventure in the wilds of the world, created from the mid-19th century to early 20th century, mostly American.

scientific romance

European science-fiction genre of the same period


plasma rifle

(science fiction, weaponry) An assault rifle-styled gun that shoots plasma.


belter

(science fiction) A person who mines asteroids for minerals or lives in the vicinity of an asteroid belt.


warp speed

The ship was accelerating to warp speed, when one of the engines failed.

(science fiction) A hypothetical, extremely rapid, speed, resulting from entering a separate dimension, termed hyperspace; much faster than the speed of light.


realspace

(science fiction) Normal, three-dimensional space; as opposed to hyperspace


sub-light

"We are about to test sub-light engine disengage."

2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 36:

(science fiction) At less than the speed of light.


cyberize

en-verb

cyberize (third-person singular simple present cyberizes, present participle cyberizing, simple past and past participle cyberized)

cyberizes (present singular third-person)
cyberizing (participle present)
cyberized (participle past)
cyberized (past)

At this Nightshade mutters under his breath and begins to metamorphose. Slowly more metal appears on him, and his looks change drastically from a pure human to a fully cyberized hunk of man and machine.

1993 August 25, Robert Johan Enters, “Re: [ADMIN] Re: Newcomer to the Theatre...”, in alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo (Usenet):

I don't see ItX [=Iteration X] forcefully cyberizing anyone against their will. Not only is it wildly unethical, Devices are far too valuble ^([sic]) to waste on people who will try to resist the Union.

2000 March 21, Julian Mensch, “Re: Iteration X Conventionpage for a noble Union [*LONG*]”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):

But he did report to Starfleet HQ his encounter with a race of cyberized humanoids who are out to assimilate everyone, and T'Pol's estimate that said race would likely return during the 24th century.

2009 May 8, "Tim Bruening" (username), "Re: Archer Vs Borg", on alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise and alt.humor.puns, Usenet

(science fiction, rare) To make into a cyborg; to fit with a cybernetic implant or prosthesis.


derezz

derezz (third-person singular simple present derezzes, present participle derezzing, simple past and past participle derezzed)

derezzes (present singular third-person)
derezzing (participle present)
derezzed (participle past)
derezzed (past)

From the film Tron, perhaps from de- and resolve or resolution.

(science fiction, intransitive, of an image) To disappear, or dissolve into pixels.


autofire

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

(science fiction) A feature that allows a weapon to fire automatically.


beamen

de-verb

beamen (weak, third-person singular present beamt, past tense beamte, past participle gebeamt, auxiliary haben)

beamt (present singular third-person)
beamte (past)
gebeamt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
beamen (infinitive)
beamend (participle present)
gebeamt (participle past)
beame (first-person indicative present singular)
beamen (first-person indicative plural present)
beame (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
beamen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
beamst (indicative present second-person singular)
beamt (indicative plural present second-person)
beamest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
beamet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
beamt (indicative present singular third-person)
beamen (indicative plural present third-person)
beame (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
beamen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
beamte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
beamten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
beamte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
beamten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
beamtest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
beamtet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
beamtest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
beamtet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
beamte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
beamten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
beamte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
beamten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
beam (imperative second-person singular)
beame (imperative second-person singular)
beamt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe gebeamt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben gebeamt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe gebeamt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben gebeamt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast gebeamt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt gebeamt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest gebeamt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet gebeamt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat gebeamt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben gebeamt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe gebeamt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben gebeamt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte gebeamt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten gebeamt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte gebeamt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten gebeamt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest gebeamt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet gebeamt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest gebeamt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet gebeamt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte gebeamt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten gebeamt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte gebeamt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten gebeamt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
beamen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde beamen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden beamen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest beamen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet beamen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde beamen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden beamen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde beamen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden beamen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde beamen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden beamen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst beamen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet beamen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest beamen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet beamen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird beamen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden beamen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde beamen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden beamen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
gebeamt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde gebeamt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden gebeamt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest gebeamt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet gebeamt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde gebeamt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden gebeamt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde gebeamt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden gebeamt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde gebeamt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden gebeamt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst gebeamt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet gebeamt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest gebeamt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet gebeamt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird gebeamt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden gebeamt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde gebeamt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden gebeamt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

Borrowed from English beam in the science fiction sense, popularised by the series Star Trek (first broadcast in Germany in 1972). The sense “to project” is a figurative use, apparently since the 1990s. Doublet of Baum.

(transitive or intransitive, science fiction) to beam (transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism)


electrokinesis

But Grey's electrokinesis and Greenman's telekinesis put me in a tight spot.

2008, A. Lee Martinez, The Automatic Detective, →ISBN, page 138:

(fantasy, science fiction) The generation of electrical force using the mind alone.


psionics

In any case, psionics appears quite legitimately in science fiction.

1976, Reginald Bretnor, The Craft of Science Fiction:

In the 1960s, Campbell abandoned his public obsessions with psionics and pseudo-science.

1998, Gary Westfahl, The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction:

(science fiction) Mental powers, especially those under conscious control, that affect physical matter, such as telekinesis.


terraformer

(science fiction) A machine that has the capability to terraform.

(chiefly science fiction) A person who terraforms.


terraformer

terraformer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
terraformant (gerund participle present)
terraformant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
terraformé (participle past)
terraformé (participle past)
terraforme (first-person indicative present singular)
terraforme (first-person indicative present singular)
terraformes (indicative present second-person singular)
terraformes (indicative present second-person singular)
terraforme (indicative present singular third-person)
terraforme (indicative present singular third-person)
terraformons (first-person indicative plural present)
terraformons (first-person indicative plural present)
terraformez (indicative plural present second-person)
terraformez (indicative plural present second-person)
terraforment (indicative plural present third-person)
terraforment (indicative plural present third-person)
terraformais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
terraformais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
terraformais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
terraformais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
terraformait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
terraformait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
terraformions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
terraformions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
terraformiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
terraformiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
terraformaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
terraformaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
terraformai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
terraformai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
terraformas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
terraformas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
terraforma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
terraforma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
terraformâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
terraformâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
terraformâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
terraformâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
terraformèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
terraformèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
terraformerai (first-person future indicative singular)
terraformerai (first-person future indicative singular)
terraformeras (future indicative second-person singular)
terraformeras (future indicative second-person singular)
terraformera (future indicative singular third-person)
terraformera (future indicative singular third-person)
terraformerons (first-person future indicative plural)
terraformerons (first-person future indicative plural)
terraformerez (future indicative plural second-person)
terraformerez (future indicative plural second-person)
terraformeront (future indicative plural third-person)
terraformeront (future indicative plural third-person)
terraformerais (conditional first-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional first-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional second-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional second-person singular)
terraformerait (conditional singular third-person)
terraformerait (conditional singular third-person)
terraformerions (conditional first-person plural)
terraformerions (conditional first-person plural)
terraformeriez (conditional plural second-person)
terraformeriez (conditional plural second-person)
terraformeraient (conditional plural third-person)
terraformeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
terraforme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
terraforme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
terraformes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
terraforme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
terraforme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
terraformions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
terraformiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
terraformiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
terraforment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
terraforment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
terraformasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
terraformasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
terraformasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
terraformassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
terraformassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
terraformassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
terraformassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
terraformassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
terraforme (imperative second-person singular)
terraforme (imperative second-person singular)
terraformons (first-person imperative plural)
terraformons (first-person imperative plural)
terraformez (imperative plural second-person)
terraformez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive, science fiction) to terraform


telepath

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.


telepath

en-verb

telepath (third-person singular simple present telepaths, present participle telepathing, simple past and past participle telepathed)

telepaths (present singular third-person)
telepathing (participle present)
telepathed (participle past)
telepathed (past)

Jan. 3rd, 1984.—I was in the front sitting-room and dare not go out of the room for the cold; my plants were awfully dry, and hearing E. [her niece] in the kitchen, I telepathed to her to bring me in some water. She at once came with a jug full and asked if I would water the plants.

1896 October, “A Diary of Telepathic Impressions”, in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 7, number 132, page 300:

He does not attribute one single experience to what we might term a "ghost" for lack of a better term. Witches, poltergeists, goblins, gremlins, fairies, dwarfs—all of them are real, physical, alive, being either the real thing or the teleported or telepathed image of the real thing.

1947 June, Raymond A. Palmer, “Observatory”, in Amazing Stories, volume 21, number 6, page 9:

Thanos: "Did you not suspect I could tell you had been telepathing?"

1973 February, Stan Lee, Iron Man, number 55

In your mind you have capacities you know / To telepath messages through the vast unknown

1976, “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”, in 3:47 EST, performed by Klaatu:

(parapsychology, science fiction) To communicate by thought; to use telepathy.


grav

Since there is no such thing as top or bottom in space, the ship's artificial gravs hold you to the floor no matter which end of the vessel points which way.

1950, Nelson Bond, Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman, →ISBN, page 76:

... We will be going to low-gravity just before jump. Passengers should be firmly strapped in at this time." "Good," murmured Muerotte. "Cutting gravs...brace yourself.

2007, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Ecolitan Enigma, →ISBN:

Trystin shut down the ventilation system and shifted the last of the power for gravs into the thrusters.

2010, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Parafaith War, →ISBN:

(science fiction) An artificial gravity generator.

A starship thundered invisibly close overhead, its gravs at full lift-off power.

The orbot was a speck, a clot, a ball, a toy. It was gliding silently in on gravs, directly overhead.

1992, Gardner Dozois, Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction Of Gardner Dozois, →ISBN, page 83:

Air cars include any vehicle which are grav powered and are capable of flying, but unlike aeroplanes they handle similar to normal ground cars.

2008, Martin Rait, FSpace Roleplaying Conspiracy Convention Skills Guide v1.1, →ISBN, page 7:

I set things up for the grav sled support and the Averonian operation.

2011, R Richard, Second Chance King of Avuls, →ISBN, page 7:

With the gravs, I can land in ten seconds and be cutting a door for you at the same time.

2011, J. E. Murphy, Sanctuary, →ISBN, page 317:

(science fiction) An anti-gravity device.


geokinesis

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) The ability to manipulate the movement of minerals in the earth using supposed psychic powers.


ferrokinesis

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) The ability to mentally manipulate iron and other metals.


chronokinesis

(science fiction) The ability to manipulate the flow of time.


téléporter

téléporter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
téléportant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
téléporté (participle past)
téléporte (first-person indicative present singular)
téléportes (indicative present second-person singular)
téléporte (indicative present singular third-person)
téléportons (first-person indicative plural present)
téléportez (indicative plural present second-person)
téléportent (indicative plural present third-person)
téléportais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
téléportais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
téléportait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
téléportions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
téléportiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
téléportaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
téléportai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
téléportas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
téléporta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
téléportâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
téléportâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
téléportèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
téléporterai (first-person future indicative singular)
téléporteras (future indicative second-person singular)
téléportera (future indicative singular third-person)
téléporterons (first-person future indicative plural)
téléporterez (future indicative plural second-person)
téléporteront (future indicative plural third-person)
téléporterais (conditional first-person singular)
téléporterais (conditional second-person singular)
téléporterait (conditional singular third-person)
téléporterions (conditional first-person plural)
téléporteriez (conditional plural second-person)
téléporteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
téléporte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
téléportes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
téléporte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
téléportions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
téléportiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
téléportent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
téléportasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
téléportasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
téléportât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
téléportassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
téléportassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
téléportassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
téléporte (imperative second-person singular)
téléportons (first-person imperative plural)
téléportez (imperative plural second-person)

(science fiction) to teleport, to beam up


selenita

pt-noun

selenita m or f by sense (plural selenitas)

From Ancient Greek σεληνίτης (selēnítēs).

Mas eu não sou um selenita e quero que a Lua se dane, dona Creuma! Cansei dessa história! […]

2018 July 6, Eliana Martins, A maldição do filme, Editora Melhoramentos, →ISBN:

But I'm not a selenite [moon inhabitant], and I don't care about the Moon, Mrs. Creuma! I'm tired of this story! […]

(science fiction) an inhabitant of Luna, the moon of Terra


selenita

(science fiction, relational) of Luna, the moon of Terra


selenita

(science fiction) pertaining to the inhabitants of or relative to Luna, the moon of Terra


empath

She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance.

1957, Hans Stefan Santesson, editor, Fantastic Universe:

How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy.

The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits.

(science fiction, parapsychology) A person with extra-sensory empathic ability, capable of sensing the emotions of others around them in a way unexplained by conventional science and psychology.


biopunk

en-noun

biopunk (countable and uncountable, plural biopunks)

From bio- + -punk, apparently on the model of cyberpunk. Compare biotech.

In the early nineties there grew up biopunk, a derivative sub-genre building not on IT but on biology, the other dominating scientific field of the end of the twentieth century. Individuals are enhanced not by mechanical means, but by genetic manipulation of their very chromosomes.

1997 September 13, Michael Quinion, “Biopunk”, in World Wide Words, archived from the original on 2015-12-08:

At its heart, The Wind Up Girl is a biopunk thriller following a^([sic]) undercover corporate agent and a genetically modified woman – but its detailed, bleak depiction of the effects of climate change sets it apart.

2017 January 19, “Five of the best climate-change novels”, in The Guardian:

(uncountable, science fiction) A science fiction genre that focuses on biotechnology and subversives.


stargate

From star + gate. A science-fiction film of this title, Stargate, was released in 1994.

Find examples of stargates and wormholes in the ancient world […]

2000, David Hatcher Childress, Technology of the Gods:

Perhaps the first clear depiction of a stargate is to be found in Robert Heinlein's classic novel Tunnel in the Sky […]

2001, William R Alschuler, Howard Zimmerman, The Science of UFOs:

A stargate takes you to that star or constellation. […] The opening of a stargate requires the participation of the Archangel Michael […]

2002, Richard Leviton, The Galaxy on Earth: A Traveler's Guide to the Planet's Visionary Geography:

At some point it might be possible to devise a "stargate" such as depicted in the movies 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stargate […]

2003, Albert A Harrison, After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life:

With a stargate, travel is instantaneous. It is quite possible that the secret government either has a stargate or is trying to get one.

2004, Stephanie Relfe, The Mars Force Book 2:

(neologism, science fiction) A hypothetical device consisting of a traversable portal (typically a wormhole) that can send one to another location light years away nearly instantaneously.


disintegrator

'Well, gentlemen,' said he, in a velvety voice with only the least trace of a foreign accent, 'you have come, as I understand from our short chat over the wires, in order to learn more of the Nemor Disintegrator.'

1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:

(science fiction) A laser or similar weapon or device that can disintegrate matter.


megastructure

For lack of anything intelligent to do (it's a slow weekend), I've been compiling a list of stories about "megastructures" -- ringworlds, Dyson spheres, and so forth.

1993 January 17, Ross Smith, “Enormous Big Things”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <alien.02jk@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>:

Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern is consistent with a “swarm of megastructures,” perhaps stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star.

2015 October 13, Ross Andersen, “The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy”, in The Atlantic:

(science fiction) A hypothetical structure not possible with current technology, e.g., a Dyson sphere.


Earthman

Such dreams! Always of Mars, and during my waking hours at night my eyes always sought out the Red Planet when he was above the horizon and clung there seeking a solution of the seemingly unfathomable riddle he has presented to the Earthman for ages.

1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Master Mind of Mars, page 2:

(usually science fiction) A male inhabitant of Earth.


hub world

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From hub, meaning the central point or are of an activity, region, or network.

Otherwise, our beautiful tree might become a definite nuisance on any Hub world to which it is introduced.

1965, John Wood Campbell, editor, Analog Science Fact/science Fiction, page 43:

A hub world in the Kasna Republik, Kasnearfar was a cosmopolitan port for beings across the Four Galaxies.

2007, Aaron Michael Fanthorpe, Genesis Project: Prelude to Destiny, volume 1, page 8:

But something was shaping up—something incomprehensible and vast, concerning the Hub Worlds, something that was apparently tangled in and directly related to tens of thousands of years of interacting histories.

(science fiction) A planet which serves as a hub.


hoverboard

Back to the Future Part II
Self-balancing two-wheeled board
hoverboard

From hover + board, patterned off of skateboard. First mentioned in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II.

(chiefly science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.


hoverboard

en-verb

hoverboard (third-person singular simple present hoverboards, present participle hoverboarding, simple past and past participle hoverboarded)

hoverboards (present singular third-person)
hoverboarding (participle present)
hoverboarded (participle past)
hoverboarded (past)

(chiefly science fiction) To travel by hoverboard.


off-worlder

/ˌɒfˈwɜːldə/

/ˈɔfˈwɜɹldəɹ/

From off-world (adjective) + -er (suffix denoting a person characterized by [the adjective to which the suffix is attached]).

suffix

suffix denoting a person characterized by 􂀿the adjective to which the suffix is attached􂁀

So? On your world you do as custom rules. Customs are different here, off-worlder.

1955, Andre Norton [pseudonym; Alice Mary Norton], “Classic move to Disaster”, in Star Guard, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 58:

The distinguished scientist, winner of the Seo Oren Prize for service to all nations through science, has accepted a professorship at Ieu Eun University, an honor never before accorded to an off-worlder.

1974, Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, chapter 3, in The Dispossessed, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published July 1975, →ISBN, page 63:

TRAVEL ADVISORY: Korlus ranks second in murder per capita in the Terminus Systems and first in offworlder murder. Civilian traffic is encouraged to employ security professionals when visiting.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City, Calif.: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Korlus:

(fantasy, science fiction) One who is not from the local world (whether a dimension, plane, planet, or universe); an alien.

ulkoplaneettalainen

one who is not from the local world — see also alien


antigrav

en-noun

antigrav (countable and uncountable, plural antigravs)

(science fiction) Antigravity, or a device that counters gravity.


holodeck

From holo- + deck, coined in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

[…] the fact that science-fiction film, and indeed much — if not most — contemporary film, has become a technology on the way to somewhere else, whether that goal turns out to be immersive, interactive, or some holodeck-style fusion of the two.

1999, Annette Kuhn, Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science-fiction Cinema:

Computer music might someday replace acoustic music made by human beings, but that time is far away, waiting either for Holodecks to be perfected or for a generation of listeners to arrive who are too busy and too uninvolved with their ambient surroundings to want to relate to them[.]

1999 June, Al Stevens, “Jukebox: Covering the Basses”, in Dr. Dobb's Journal, volume 24, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman, Inc., →ISSN, page 115:

Building a holodeck will require breakthroughs in sensors, robotics, and mechanical interfaces […]

2002, Kay M Stanney, Handbook of virtual environments:

In such a world, would one want to be hooked up to a pleasure machine or live on a holodeck?

2007, Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, James Moor, Nanoethics:

(science fiction) A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.


cyberdeck

From cyber- + deck, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in 1984 in his novel Neuromancer.

coin

More than twelve hours had passed since the decker had touched the cyberdeck keyboard.

1991, Robert N Charrette, John Zeleznik, Joel Biske, Find Your Own Truth:

...then the interface that provides the experience — say, a cyberdeck — becomes a quantifiable metric of human experience as well as a commodity.

2002, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Edging Into the Future:

...people fused either temporarily or permanently with machinery (by brain implants, by jacking in to the cyberdeck, etc.)...

2003, Karen Haber, Exploring the Matrix:

...a glove with silver metallic weaving and a black cord that was connected to his cyberdeck.

(science fiction) A piece of equipment that can be temporarily connected to the user's brain as an interface to cyberspace.


cyberbook

The reader, the cyberbook, costs, say, $200. The wafers cost pennies. The reader, the human, is thus ever after buying a handful of wafers instead of books […]

1972, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact:

Bookshelves ran up to the ceiling along two walls, and a third wall had shelves full of video disks and cyberbook chips […]

Probably the day is not far off when a three-dimensional cyberbook can begin to effectively chart this web of contacts […]

2005, Michael A Winkelman, Marriage relationships in Tudor political drama:

(science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.


ork

(specific to Warhammer 40,000, science fiction) A species of aggressive, fungal humanoid alien, corresponding to the orcs in other fantasy works.


cybercowboy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


timeslip

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


mechanoid

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

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


Sirian

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


sabre laser

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


planetless

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

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

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

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

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

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

(science fiction) Having no home planet.


univers parallèle

fr-noun

univers parallèle m (plural univers parallèles)


parallel universe

en-noun

parallel universe (plural parallel universes)

non-parallelizable universe

mathematically incompatible; without a common superordinate wave function

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

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

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


sexbot

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Jealous wives may destroy sexbot rivals and sue the manufacturer.

2000, Richard Rhodes, Visions of technology:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


biot

(science fiction) A robot composed of living components.


Marsjanin

pl-noun

Marsjanin m pers (female equivalent Marsjanka)

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

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


feelie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ramscoop

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


xenology

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

(science fiction) The study of alien life.


astrogate

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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


spacefarer

From space + farer. Compare spacefaring, seafarer.

(chiefly science fiction) a person who travels in space

зарапла́вец

a person who travels in space — see also astronaut


computronium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


precog

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

coin

(science fiction) A precognitive person.

(science fiction) Clipping of precognition.


precog

en-adj

precog (comparative more precog, superlative most precog)

more precog (comparative)
most precog (superlative)

(science fiction) Clipping of precognitive.


kiloyear

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


chrononaut

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.


Terraforming

de-noun

Terraforming n (strong, genitive Terraformings, no plural)

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

(science fiction) terraforming (planetary engineering)


supersoldier

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

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

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


interdimensional

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

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

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


gengineered

genetically engineered
genetically engineered

(science fiction) genetically engineered


earthside

(science fiction) On or to the planet Earth.


slidewalk

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


spacehand

From space + hand, analogous to deckhand.

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


spacelegs

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

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

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


overmind

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


spinward

en-adv

spinward (comparative more spinward, superlative most spinward)

more spinward (comparative)
most spinward (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Sol III

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(chiefly science fiction) The planet Earth.


air pirate

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


autodestruction

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


timescape

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


astrogation

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

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

(science fiction) Astronavigation (navigation through space).


hoverchair

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

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

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

(chiefly science fiction) A chair that levitates.


decloak

en-verb

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

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

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


cloner

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


傳送

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵ sʊŋ⁵¹/

/t͡sʰyːn²¹ sʊŋ³³/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² saŋ⁴¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan²³⁻³³ saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan¹³⁻²² saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan²⁴⁻¹¹ saŋ¹¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² sɔŋ⁴¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² sɔŋ²¹/

/tʰuan¹³⁻²² sɔŋ²¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵ sʊŋ⁵¹/

/t͡sʰyːn²¹ sʊŋ³³/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² saŋ⁴¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan²³⁻³³ saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan¹³⁻²² saŋ²¹/

/tʰuan²⁴⁻¹¹ saŋ¹¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² sɔŋ⁴¹/

/tuan²⁴⁻²² sɔŋ²¹/

/tʰuan¹³⁻²² sɔŋ²¹/


first contact

en-noun

first contact (usually uncountable, plural first contacts)

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

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

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


von Neumann machine

von Neumann machine (plural von Neumann machines)

For John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician

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


droide

[ˈdɾɔɪ̯.d͡ʒi]

[ˈdɾɔɪ̯.d͡ʒi]


dimensão

[d͡ʒi.mẽˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

Borrowed from Latin dīmēnsiōnem (“measurement”).

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


roboid

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

1974, Michael Moorcock, The shores of death:

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

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

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


biomonitor

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


power suit

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

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

(science fiction) A powered exoskeleton.


wehikuł czasu

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

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

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


autochef

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

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

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

1999, John Gregory Betancourt, Johnny Zed:

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

2002, Keith Brooke, Keepers of the Peace:

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


meat puppet

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

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

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

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

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

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


autodestruct

en-verb

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

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

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


autodestruct

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


Skynet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

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


sublight

(science fiction) Alternative spelling of sub-light


Enceladan

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


Ganymedean

/ˌɡænəmɪˈdiː.ən/

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


Charonian

/kəˈɹoʊnɪən/

/ʃəˈɹoʊnɪən/

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

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

1990, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars:

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

Charonian staircase

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


farspeak

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

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

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

1987, Julian May, Intervention, page 169:

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

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

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

1991, Margaret Ball, Flameweaver, page 23:

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

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

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

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


farspeak

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

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

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


scoutcraft

en-noun

scoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)

scoutcrafts (plural)
scoutcraft (plural)

Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


starport

(science fiction) A port for interstellar craft.


outworld

Shepard, it's been two years since you had a job. Isn't it time you rectified that?
Exciting opportunities await Alliance citizens like you on the outworld colonies.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-31, PC, scene: Citadel Zakera Level 27 Advertisement:

(science fiction, often attributive) A planet that is remote from the homeworld of a civilization.


biobed

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


vidscreen

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

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

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


planetfall

From planet + fall, by analogy with landfall.

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

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

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


carplane

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


telescreen

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

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

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

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

2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:

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


bodynet

From body + net, in the sense of network.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


cavorite

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

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

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

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

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

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


chronoclasm

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

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


medscanner

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

1997, Diane Duane, Intellivore, page 102:

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

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


hyperjump

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


jump drive

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

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


terano

eo-head

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

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

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

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


starfaring

From star + faring, modelled on seafaring.

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

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

(science fiction) Travelling among the stars.


molecular assembler

en-noun

molecular assembler (plural molecular assemblers)

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


superkick

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

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

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

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

Lori Couto's SUPERKICK?

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

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

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

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


bioneer

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

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

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

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


bioneer

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(chiefly science fiction) To engineer biologically.


Callistan

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Callisto.


Gaian

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth.


necrocracy

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

confix

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


dropship

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

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

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

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

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


killbot

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


marsbuar

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

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


closed time loop

en-noun

closed time loop (plural closed time loops)

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


autoinfanticide

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

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

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

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

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


impervium

(science fiction) An impervious substance.


hypersleep

suspended animation
suspended animation#English

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


cybersuit

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

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

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

2002, Douglas Mulhall, Our molecular future:

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

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

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


antispinward

en-adv

antispinward (comparative more antispinward, superlative most antispinward)

more antispinward (comparative)
most antispinward (superlative)

To antispinward was the largest mountain men had ever seen.

1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 152:

My fathers and mothers tell that we have been moving to antispinward since they were little. They remember that they had to go around a great sea, but they did not come too close, because the beasts would not eat the plants that grow around the shore.

1978, Galileo: Magazine of Science & Fiction, Boston, Mass.: Avenue Victor Hugo Publishers, page 77:

Laura imagined that he would expect them to flee along the beams, and she watched his narrow face searching the impenetrable shadows antispinward of where they hid.

1985, Nancy Kress, Trinity and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Bluejay Books, →ISBN, page 214:

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

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

antispinward adv. in or toward the opposite direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating.

2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

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

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

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


farspeaker

From farspeak + -er. Compare German Fernsprecher (“telephone”).

"I wish I wasn't so messed up; I wish I was bigger and stronger. Or a Farspeaker like Kyril,” she replied in a very small voice. “You can't help what happened. As for being a Farspeaker, I don't think both of us together could reach someone with the Gift to hear us, and if we could, I don't know that it would do any good," he sighed.

(science fiction, fantasy) One who farspeaks.

Ecgbert picked up the farspeaker eagerly. "Frideswide darling! I have been wating to hear from you all the morning. […] "

1948, New Statesman: the week-end review

"Let's find out whether I do or not," said Yull imperturbably, and activated the farspeaker to maximum volume. At one a voice rang out, impersonal, repetitive: the sound of a recordimal.

1984, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time:

“Sir, we found him in the farspeaker room,” said one of the guards. “He was tampering with the equipment."

2009, Nick Gevers, Jay Lake, Other Earths:

She held it out toward him. It was the size of a chicken egg, only broken in half. The other half of the crystal—carried by another—would vibrate in tune with its twin, allowing communication, like a walkie-talkie. “A farspeaker! Pindor gasped out. "Why didn't you tell us you had one!" "I did. Back when I first ran into you all," she reminded them. "I had been calling Papa on my farspeaker when I was snatched here."

2011, James Rollins, Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx:

(science fiction) A device or apparatus used to farspeak or communicate over long distances.


hovercam

Like almost everyone else in her world, Aya records everything she does with the help of a semi-sentient hovercam (a sort of floating soccer ball that's a cross between R2D2 and Weegee), using the resulting footage to boost her face rank.

2007 November 11, James Hynes, “Looks Aren't Everything”, in New York Times:

(science fiction) A mobile hovering camera.


hoverjet

(science fiction) A kind of levitating aeroplane or spacecraft.


hoverbike

(science fiction) A motorbike capable of levitation.


watchphone

Elaborate Swiss watchphones peeked from their sleeves.

1989, Bruce Sterling, Islands in the net:

Products will run the gamut from digital assistants to Dick Tracy-style wireless watchphones.

1996, Michael Moynihan, The coming American renaissance:

The watchphone would have a detachable microphone and earpiece.

1997, Popular Science, volume 250, number 6, page 64:

Damien's watchphone beeps, and from it Heavitree's voice emerges:

2002, Don Sakers, Dance for the Ivory Madonna: a romance of psiberspace, page 16:

(chiefly science fiction) A watch with telephone capabilities.


hovercycle

(science fiction) A bicycle capable of levitation.


orgasmatron

From orgasm + -tron, introduced in the film Sleeper (1973).

We do not know of any real-life orgasmatrons, even vibrators.

2002, Steve Bodansky, Vera Bodansky, The Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive Orgasm, page 225:

Among the eras have been Louis Quatorze (1967), Space Odyssey Moderne (2001) and perpetual futuristic spins on picture-palace Deco, including last year’s show, hosted by Jon Stewart, in which towering Oscars were encased in see-through capsules, resembling the orgasmatron in Woody Allen’s 1973 film “Sleeper.”

2009 February 15, Patricia Leigh Brown, “The Little Gold Man in a New Blue World”, in New York Times:

(science fiction) A hypothetical device capable of inducing orgasm.


telepaper

But, as the anchorwoman assures us at the end, with a two-hour download time (at $5 an hour), “the new telepaper won’t be much competition for the 20-cent street edition.”

2009 May 10, Frank Rich, “The American Press on Suicide Watch”, in New York Times:

(rare, chiefly science fiction) A newspaper that can be downloaded in an electronic format.


planetside

For Kincaid, that planet represented the chance to finally take part in a planetside assault out of the Marine legends on which he'd been weaned—a chance this mass butchery misnamed a war had offered in all too short supply.

2002, David Weber, Steve White, The Shiva option:


planetside

EOS (HNS) - Dead Coming Home
The remains of colonists who died in the first attempts to settle Eos are coming home. Remains from Sites 1 and 2 have finally been recovered, giving closure to numerous families aboard the Nexus. There are now calls for an inquiry into why the bodies were left planetside after two failed attempts to establish outposts.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-12, PC, scene: Nexus:


stardate

Captain's log, stardate 3087.6. While investigating an uncharted planet, the Enterprise and at least this entire quadrant of space, has been subjected to violent, unexplained stress and force.

1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, spoken by William Shatner:

And to avoid any quantum entanglement, make sure that if you visit the show before it closes on the stardate equivalent to Sept. 20, your transporter is in working order.

2009 May 30, Edward Rothstein, “The U.S.S. Enterprise, in Strange New World of Museum”, in New York Times:

(science fiction) A date according to the fictional system of time measurement developed for Star Trek.


cryosleep

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“Constantly shifting positions and priorities. Outright deception. And behind it all, the possibility we'll be hit again by this Scourge. Despite all that, their solution is for us to return to cryo. Just take a little nap and all our problems will go away.”[…]
What had Calix and his team become? This was no simple protest. His speech had implied as much. To resist the order to return to cryo-sleep, by definition it made these people a resistance.

2017 March, Jason M. Hough, K. C. Alexander, Mass Effect Andromeda: Nexus Uprising, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 369–370:

(science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.


skycycle

“The blasters and lasers on the skycycles are fully charged and set on the highest level of power,” answered Tiffany in her high voice.

2005, Matthew T Bird, The Scumball Saga, page 126:

Ethics does not compel you to make it a family heirloom, passing it down from generation to generation, into the distant future, when the cool kids are riding those antigravity skycycles.

2009 July 12, Randy Cohen, “Co-Worker Concerns”, in New York Times:


alienlike

en-adj

alienlike (comparative more alienlike, superlative most alienlike)

more alienlike (comparative)
most alienlike (superlative)

On the screen there was this creepy image: a giant head, mouth agape, with clawing hands reaching out of it, alienlike, toward the figure of a girl.

2009 July 14, Melena Ryzik, “Curtain Down, Light the Lights!”, in New York Times:

(science fiction) Resembling or characteristic of an alien.


homaŭtomato

eo-head

homaŭtomato (accusative singular homaŭtomaton, plural homaŭtomatoj, accusative plural homaŭtomatojn)

homaŭtomaton (accusative singular)
homaŭtomatoj (plural)
homaŭtomatojn (accusative plural)

From homo (“human”) + aŭtomato (“automaton”).


Cyborg

de-noun

Cyborg m (strong, genitive Cyborgs, plural Cyborgs)

Cyborgs (genitive)
Cyborgs (plural)
Cyborg (nominative singular)
Cyborgs (definite nominative plural)
Cyborgs (genitive singular)
Cyborgs (definite genitive plural)
Cyborg (dative singular)
Cyborgs (dative definite plural)
Cyborg (accusative singular)
Cyborgs (accusative definite plural)