Centaurian

Centaurian (comparative more Centaurian, superlative most Centaurian)

more Centaurian (comparative)
most Centaurian (superlative)

(chiefly science fiction) Pertaining to the constellation Centaurus or its imagined inhabitants.


Centaurian

The Centaurians are remarkable people, but move slowly.

1911, [L. D.] Biagi, The Centaurians: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Publishing Co., […]:

Jack proposed to record a Centaurian’s vocabulary with English equivalents, and the dictawriter, hearing the queer hoots the strange creature uttered, would pick out a card which would then cause a speaker to enunciate its English synonym.

1935 March, Murray Leinster, “Proxima Centauri”, in Astounding Stories, volume XV, number 1, Street & Smith, page 25:

Suppose that in a few years we are visited by a race of benevolent and rational beings from Alpha Centauri that have free will and an advanced culture. […] Suppose further that after they figure out our languages we realize the Centaurians are moral beings who act on reflectively endorsed and rationally appraised principle. We can now ask, “What is of moral value for the Centaurians?”

2010, Adam D. Moore, Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations, The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, page 38:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the constellation Centaurus.


Proxima Centaurian

en-noun

Proxima Centaurian (plural Proxima Centaurians)

The Proxima Centaurians, who are roughly humanoid in shape, are a development of mobile carnivorous plants.

1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Richard J[ames] Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, Kent, Ohio, London: The Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 248:

In “Rautavaara’s Case,” the alien Proxima Centaurians save the severely damaged human Agneta Rautavaara by using the rest of her irreparable body as a nutrient source to sustain her brain.

2011, G.C. Goddu, “Will You Survive a Trip to Rekall, Inc.?”, in D.E. Wittkower, editor, Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits? (George A. Reisch, editor, Popular Culture and Philosophy, volume 63), Chicago, Ill., LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, section “Identity Crises”, page 65:

Rather than come here in person, it would be much more sensible for Proxima Centaurians, if they exist, to send an unmanned satellite, the way we have in our exploration of the other planets of the solar system.

2018, William B. Irvine, You: A Natural History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Proxima Centauri.


Proxima Centaurian

en-adj

Proxima Centaurian (comparative more Proxima Centaurian, superlative most Proxima Centaurian)

more Proxima Centaurian (comparative)
most Proxima Centaurian (superlative)

Science Officer Heath stood out as the only American – specifically, of Proxima Centaurian descent – among the command cadre.

2016, Jamie Sawyer, The Lazarus War; Book Three: Origins, Orbit, →ISBN:

IF I CAN ISOLATE THE DIFFERENCES IN HUMAN BLOOD AND PROXIMA CENTAURIAN…

2021, Jim McCann, Star Trek: Year Five, IDW Publishing:

A member of the Galacterian Alignment, and participants in the Melchizedek Star Seed Program, the Proxima Centaurian race is here to assist Earth in its dualistic proclivity: to spiritually raise, to uplift mentally, to reveal health—all roads that lead to true happiness.

2021, Craig Campobasso, The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac: The Ultimate Guide to Greys, Reptilians, Hybrids, and Nordics, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 109:

(science fiction, rare) Of or relating to Proxima Centauri.


medbed

On either side of the medbed I was in, and on the other side of the long, narrow room, other medbeds stretched in long rows. I couldn't make them out well, though, and I remembered they had added distortion fields to medbeds to give patients privacy.

That might work. Call the Aurorae and have a medbed waiting in your prep room. If we can offload them on medbeds, we can load them the same way.

2013, Maggi O'Mally, Aurorae II, page 161:

She was lying on a medbed and only clad in her black jumpsuit. Her armor, helmet and pack were gone.

2014, Rhiannon Frater, The Last Mission of the Living:

Dante snapped his fingers and Damon appeared with a medbed. "As you can see he is the patient."

2020, Serena Simpson, Keriann McKenna, Mick:

(science fiction) A bed equipped with technology for medical diagnosis and treatment.


terranaut

From Latin terra (“dry land; soil; Earth”) + -naut.

af

The first terranaut was pulled into view, wearing the characteristic black uniform of his kind. His head lolled back, his mask had been ripped away, but he was fighting bravely to retain consciousness.

1967, Brian W. Aldiss, “The Night That All Time Broke Out”, in Harlan Ellison, editor, Dangerous Visions, New York: Doubleday & Company, page 166:

By now, the interior of the vessel was entirely weightless. The ship had sunk to a depth of 6,800 kilometers – the planet's deepest point. The last remaining terranaut aboard the Sunset 6 had become the first person to reach the Earth's core.

2013, Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth, London: Head of Zeus, published 2017, →ISBN, page unknown:

(chiefly science fiction) Someone who explores some part of the Earth.


zmiennokształtny

zmiennokształtny (nominative singular)
zmiennokształtni (nominative plural)
zmiennokształtnego (genitive singular)
zmiennokształtnych (genitive plural)
zmiennokształtnemu (dative singular)
zmiennokształtnym (dative plural)
zmiennokształtnego (accusative singular)
zmiennokształtnych (accusative plural)
zmiennokształtnym (instrumental singular)
zmiennokształtnymi (instrumental plural)
zmiennokształtnym (locative singular)
zmiennokształtnych (locative plural)
zmiennokształtny (singular vocative)
zmiennokształtni (plural vocative)

(fantasy, science fiction) changeling, shape-shifter


skyland

She then went to Miss Green’s house who, when she heard the sound of the six pipe flute, expected to see her husband return from the skyland. She opened the door. Instead, it was the tiger demon who touched the hem of her skirt causing her to fall down in a dead faint.

1967, Collected Papers in Highway Salvage Archaeology, 1972-74, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, →ISBN, page 55:

Tearing his eyes from the skylands, he called, “You warned me that Blood was going to catch me, back there in the city while you were renting these donkeys for us. What do you think he’ll do to me if he does?”

1993, Gene Wolfe, Nightside the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun), Tor Books, →ISBN:

First he has to find the place, and as the sleeve of night brings darkness to his city of Viron, light to the skylands above, he sets out on his quest.

2016, Michael Andre-Driussi, Gene Wolfe: 14 Articles on His Fiction, Sirius Fiction, →ISBN, page 128:

They passed a number of islands as well as a few low lying skylands, all heavy with vegetation and life.

2021, L.T. Junzon, Descendants of the Lost: Tales of the Seeker, MJ Publishing, →ISBN:

The military intelligence confidently surmises that their ethnic origin is either from the skylands in the clouds of Jupiter or from Uranus.

2022, Yoda Oraiah, Cosmism: A New Hope for Humanity, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 198:

But that day in the skylands of Skod, the day of deliverance, I never set out to do anything like what I’m given credit for.

2022 August, Rick Remender, Seven to Eternity, deluxe edition, Image Comics, Inc.:

(science fiction) A land above the sky, such as a floating city or another planet.


salesrobot

(science fiction, rare) A robotic salesperson.


aerocar

(science fiction) A flying car; a flying machine which looks and functions similarly to modern cars, often described as using antigravity technology.


armorplast

From armor + -plast (“a small body, structure”).

suffix

(science fiction) A fictional material, often described as being strong, flexible, and transparent.


autodoc

(science fiction) A system or robot which provides automatic medical care.


aerocab

(science fiction) Synonym of aircab (“a flying taxicab”).


asterite

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of an asteroid.


Asterite

(science fiction, demonym) Alternative letter-case form of asterite


braintape

From brain + tape (“any video or audio recording”).

compound

(science fiction) A complete record of the contents of someone's brain.


astroengineer

(science fiction) An engineer who designs or operates spacecraft or space stations.


Aldebaranian

(science fiction) Relating to the Aldebaran system or to Aldebaranians.


Aldebaranian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Aldebaran system.


Aldebaranian

(science fiction, rare) The language spoken by Aldebaranians.


countergrav

(science fiction, rare) Clipping of countergravity.


combozine

(science fiction fandom slang) A combination of zines bound or distributed together.


collapsium

From collapse + -ium. Probably alluding to black holes, which are extremely dense objects formed by collapsing matter in the core of a dying star.

(science fiction) A fictional material usually described as having an extremely high density.


cityship

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(science fiction) A spacecraft which contains an entire city.


Chicon

(science fiction fandom slang) A name given to various science fiction conventions held in Chicago, United States.


cyborgization

(science fiction) The act of converting something into a cyborg.


Class M

Originally from the TV series Star Trek.

(science fiction) Of a planet: having characteristics similar to that of Earth.


impossible story

en-noun

impossible story (plural impossible stories)

(science fiction fandom slang, dated) Any story featuring elements of science fiction or fantasy (as opposed to typical stories which are set in the real world).


different story

different story (plural different stories)


-con

(science fiction fandom slang) Used to form the names of conventions.


cyborgized

She is almost totally cyborgized except for a small number of human brain cells. Her apparently female body is a mere shell to encase a cybernetic entity.

2011, Donna Spalding Andréolle, Veronique Molinari, Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 233:

(science fiction) Having been made into a cyborg.


Earthish

en-adj

Earthish (comparative more Earthish, superlative most Earthish)

more Earthish (comparative)
most Earthish (superlative)

(science fiction) Relating to or originating from the Earth.


Earthish

(science fiction) A hypothetical universal language of Earth.


coreward

coreward (comparative more coreward, superlative most coreward)

more coreward (comparative)
most coreward (superlative)

(science fiction) Close to or travelling towards the galactic core.


coreward

The first colonisation efforts went coreward from the Blue Planetary Nebula with worlds like Sirona Prime, Xalau III and Usinnia being discovered and settled.

2018, James E Taris, The Venality Effect: Two Clients, Xlibris, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Towards the galactic core.


eetee

A pronunciation spelling of ET (“extraterrestrial”).

(science fiction) An extraterrestrial being; an alien.


Earthfolk

(science fiction) People from planet Earth.


Earth normal

atmospheric pressure
atmospheric pressure

(science fiction) The standard conditions (especially of gravity and atmospheric pressure) found on Earth.


Earthsider

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth.


empathist

extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception

(science fiction) Someone able to sense the emotions of others through extrasensory perception; an empath.


Martianess

Coordinate term: Martian

(science fiction, rare) A female Martian.


Earth-normal

Earth-normal (comparative more Earth-normal, superlative most Earth-normal)

more Earth-normal (comparative)
most Earth-normal (superlative)

(science fiction) Of a condition, similar to that found on Earth (especially describing gravity or atmospheric pressure).


kiloday

(science fiction, rare) A period of one thousand days.


cyborged

Cyborged servitors – mind-wiped snail-men – constantly cruised the black marble floor of his long, barrel-vaulted chamber, cleansing and laying down trails of scewnted polish behind them.

1994, Ian Watson, Harlequin, Boxtree, →ISBN, page 9:


otherspace

(science fiction) A type of space with different physical laws than ordinary space, often permitting faster-than-light travel.


gyrobus

The gyrobus touched down on the commercial side of the spaceport, not far from a row of hangars where several shuttles were parked.

2007 December, Allen Steele, “Galaxy Blues”, in Asimov's Science Fiction, volume 31, number 12, →ISSN, page 102:


Earthside

(science fiction) The planet Earth or (synecdochically) a group or organization based on Earth.


miecz świetlny

miecz świetlny (nominative singular)
miecze świetlne (nominative plural)
mieczu świetlnego (genitive singular)
mieczy świetlnych (genitive plural)
mieczowi świetlnemu (dative singular)
mieczom świetlnym (dative plural)
miecz świetlny (accusative singular)
miecze świetlne (accusative plural)
mieczem świetlnym (instrumental singular)
mieczami świetlnymi (instrumental plural)
mieczu świetlnym (locative singular)
mieczach świetlnych (locative plural)
mieczu świetlny (singular vocative)
miecze świetlne (plural vocative)

Literally, “light sword”. Calque of English lightsaber.


терранец

ru-noun+

терра́нец • (terránec) m anim (genitive терра́нца, nominative plural терра́нцы, genitive plural терра́нцев, feminine терра́нка, relational adjective терра́нский)

терра́нец (canonical)
terránec (romanization)
терра́нца (genitive)
терра́нцы (nominative plural)
терра́нцев (genitive plural)
терра́нка (feminine)
терра́нский (adjective relational)
терра́нец (nominative singular)
терра́нцы (nominative plural)
терра́нца (genitive singular)
терра́нцев (genitive plural)
терра́нцу (dative singular)
терра́нцам (dative plural)
терра́нца (accusative singular)
терра́нцев (accusative plural)
терра́нцем (instrumental singular)
терра́нцами (instrumental plural)
терра́нце (prepositional singular)
терра́нцах (plural prepositional)

Те́рра (Térra, “Terra, Earth”) + -ец (-ec, “-ian”), from Latin Terra; calque of English Terran.

af

(neologism, science fiction) a Terran (an Earthling, someone from Earth)


терранка

ru-noun+

терра́нка • (terránka) f anim (genitive терра́нки, nominative plural терра́нки, genitive plural терра́нок, masculine терра́нец, relational adjective терра́нский)

терра́нка (canonical)
terránka (romanization)
терра́нки (genitive)
терра́нки (nominative plural)
терра́нок (genitive plural)
терра́нец (masculine)
терра́нский (adjective relational)
терра́нка (nominative singular)
терра́нки (nominative plural)
терра́нки (genitive singular)
терра́нок (genitive plural)
терра́нке (dative singular)
терра́нкам (dative plural)
терра́нку (accusative singular)
терра́нок (accusative plural)
терра́нкой (instrumental singular)
терра́нкою (instrumental singular)
терра́нками (instrumental plural)
терра́нке (prepositional singular)
терра́нках (plural prepositional)

(neologism, science fiction) a Terran woman or girl (a female Earthling)


element zero

From being a chemical element with zero protons.

(informal, nuclear physics, science fiction) Synonym of neutronium (“material composed of neutrons”)

(science fiction) A fictional chemical element with element number/atomic number/proton number zero (0), often with unrealistic properties.


time police

(science fiction) An organization which regulates time travel, especially with the purpose of preventing the past from being changed.


time cop

(science fiction) A member of the time police.


time crime

en-noun

time crime (countable and uncountable, plural time crimes)

(science fiction) The violation of time travel law (especially referring to an attempt to change the past).


torch drive

(science fiction) A spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion.


time-binding

Coined by Polish-American philosopher Alfred Korzybski in 1921.

coinage

(especially general semantics, science fiction) The act of transmitting knowledge and experience from one moment and person to other moments and people using written information (e.g., written language, images, symbols), whether in mundane instances or (especially) from one generation to the next.


time-binding

(general semantics, science fiction) Engaging in time-binding.


Titanese

(science fiction) Relating to Titan (the largest moon of Saturn) or to its inhabitants.


Titanese

(science fiction) The language spoken on Titan.


seetee

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

coined

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


time barrier

(science fiction) A barrier or obstacle preventing time travel, especially one resulting from technological limitations.


thionite

From thio- (“containing sulphur”) + -n- + -ite. Coined by American author E. E. Smith in 1937.

coinage

(science fiction) A fictional addictive drug said to induce euphoric dreams.


torchship

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Compound of torch (“a torch drive”) + ship.

com+

(science fiction) A spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).


replikant

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

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

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


homeworlder

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the homeworld.


タイムマシーン

[ta̠imɯ̟ ma̠ɕĩːɴ]


star base

(science fiction) Alternative form of starbase


fankind

From fan + -kind, possible punning on mankind.

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

(science fiction fandom slang) Fans collectively.


fanarchistic

en-adj

fanarchistic (comparative more fanarchistic, superlative most fanarchistic)

more fanarchistic (comparative)
most fanarchistic (superlative)

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

suf

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

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

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


fanarchist

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

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

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


gyrocab

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

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


helicab

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

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

(science fiction) A helicopter used as a taxicab.


groundlubber

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

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

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


glassite

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

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

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


holocam

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

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

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


gravitied

heavily-gravitied

non-gravitied

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

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

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


groundside

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

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

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


gravitics

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

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

The fictional science of studying and controlling gravity.

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

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

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


hubward

en-adv

hubward (comparative more hubward, superlative most hubward)

more hubward (comparative)
most hubward (superlative)

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

suf

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

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

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


groundcar

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

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

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


visiplate

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

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

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


viewplate

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

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

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


visiscreen

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

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


visiphone

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

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

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


visiphone

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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


ultrawave

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

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

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

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

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

A device capable of receiving or producing ultrawaves.


transhumanity

From transhuman + -ity or trans- + humanity.

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

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

You don't need me to safeguard the future of Carter-Zimmerman on your behalf. Or the future of transhumanity. You can do it in person.

1995, Greg Egan, “Wang's Carpets”, in Greg Bear, editor, New Legends, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 361:


starway

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

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

(science fiction) A route or pathway between stars.


spacehound

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

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

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


starfleet

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

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


spaceboat

Compound of space + boat, modelled after spaceship.

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

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


spacegram

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

suf

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

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

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


spacegram

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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


saucerman

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

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

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


spindizzy

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

coinage

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

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

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


shapechange

en-verb

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

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

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

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

(science fiction, fantasy) To shapeshift.


shapechange

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

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

(science fiction, fantasy) An instance of shapechanging.


spacewrecked

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

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

(science fiction) Having been wrecked in space.


starfarer

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

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

(science fiction) Someone who travels between stars.


시간여행

siganyeohaeng (romanization)
時間旅行 (hanja)

[ɕʰiɡa̠ɲʌ̹ɦɛŋ]

[ɕʰiɡa̠ɲʌ̹ɦe̞ŋ]

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


Lunarite

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

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

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

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


Lunite

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

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

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


planetman

Compound of planet + man, modelled after countryman.

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

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

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


lifeship

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

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

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


jumpship

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

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

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


jumpspace

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

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


rocketport

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

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


moonman

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

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

On the floor the Moonman's body shivered again.

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

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

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

en:member of a nation of fictional moon dwellers

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


robotrix

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

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

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

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

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


rimworld

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

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

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


jonbar hinge

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

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


Luna City

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

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


threedy

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

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

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

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


mindlink

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

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

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


ultradrive

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

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

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


xenological

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

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

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


ultraphone

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

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

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


vibroblade

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

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

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


tri-V

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

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

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


trideo

en-noun

trideo (countable and uncountable, plural trideos)

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

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

(science fiction) A three-dimensional video.

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

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

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


tri-vid

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

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


mutie

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

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


neurolink

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

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

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


plastiskin

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

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

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


organlegger

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

blend

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

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

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


Loonie

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

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

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


vibroknife

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

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

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


prespace

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

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

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


telekineticist

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

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

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


telempathic

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

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

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


telempathy

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

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

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


telempath

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

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

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


sub-ether

en-noun

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

(science fiction) Alternative form of subether


threevee

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

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

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

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

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


subetherics

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

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

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


tridim

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

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

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

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

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


Terranian

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

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

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

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth.


Terranian

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

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

(science fiction) Relating to Earth or its people.


planetographer

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

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

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

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


telescanner

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

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

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


Tau Cetian

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


Tau Cetian

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


Tau Cetian

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


spacedog

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

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

(science fiction) A person experienced in space travel.


subether

subether (countable and uncountable, plural subethers)

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

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

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


groundsider

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


planetsider

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(science fiction) Someone who lives on a planet.


landsider

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


moonship

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

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

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

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

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

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


trimensional

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(chiefly science fiction) Three-dimensional.


Marsscape

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

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

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


autofactory

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

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

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

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

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

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

(science fiction) A factory capable of running autonomously.


autofac

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


космодесант

ru-noun+

космодеса́нт

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

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

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

af

Мы космодеса́нты, и мы не бу́дем знать стра́ха.

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

My kosmodesánty, i my ne búdem znatʹ stráxa.

Бро́ня космодеса́нта помога́ет ему́ ориенти́роваться на вулкани́ческой плане́те.

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

Brónja kosmodesánta pomogájet jemú orijentírovatʹsja na vulkaníčeskoj planéte.


სუპერგმირი

ka-noun

სუპერგმირები

სუპერგმირი • (suṗergmiri) (plural სუპერგმირები)

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

სუ‧პერ‧გმი‧რი


rymdinvasion

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


силове поле

uk-noun

силове́<+> по́ле<c.genpl:полі́в:піль>

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

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

uk-ndecl

силове́<+> по́ле<c.genpl:полі́в:піль>

[seɫɔˈʋɛ ˈpɔɫe]


سايبورغ

ar-noun

سَايْبُورْغ • (sāybūrḡ) m

سَايْبُورْغ (canonical)
sāybūrḡ (romanization)


隨意門

/t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ jiː³³ muːn²¹/

/t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ jiː³³ muːn²¹/

(Hong Kong, science fiction) teleportation portal


'saur

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(informal or science fiction, fantasy) A dinosaur.


aquan

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

af

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

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

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

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


гіперпростір

uk-noun

гіперпро́стір<sg.io.loci>

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

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

uk-ndecl

гіперпро́стір<sg.io.loci>

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


battlecraft

en-noun

battlecraft (countable and uncountable, plural battlecraft or battlecrafts)

battlecraft (plural)
battlecrafts (plural)

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


morpher

(science fiction, fantasy) A shapeshifter.


სუპერბოროტმოქმედი

ka-noun

სუპერბოროტმოქმედები

სუპერბოროტმოქმედი • (suṗerboroṭmokmedi) (plural სუპერბოროტმოქმედები)

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

სუ‧პერ‧ბო‧როტ‧მოქ‧მე‧დი


水星人

ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄖㄣˊ

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/sɵy̯³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/sɵy̯³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

(science fiction) Mercurian (inhabitant of Mercury)


水星人

水星人 (canonical)
suiseijin (romanization)

[sɨise̞ːʑĩɴ]

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

suf

(science fiction) a Mercurian (inhabitant of Mercury)


bioborg

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

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

(science fiction) A biologically-based cyborg


boarding craft

en-noun

boarding craft (plural boarding crafts or boarding craft)

boarding crafts (plural)
boarding craft (plural)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


antilithium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający

pl-noun

niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający m inan

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

Calque of English unidentified flying object.

cal

unidentified flying object
unidentified flying object

(science fiction, ufology) UFO, unidentified flying object


airtram

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


infohazardous

en-adj

infohazardous (comparative more infohazardous, superlative most infohazardous)

more infohazardous (comparative)
most infohazardous (superlative)

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


antimemetic

antimemetic (comparative more antimemetic, superlative most antimemetic)

more antimemetic (comparative)
most antimemetic (superlative)

From antimeme + -etic or anti- + memetic.

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


aéro-train

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

(science fiction) Alternative spelling of aérotrain

In the Year 2889 (short story)
Michel Verne


overdeity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


aéro-car

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


aéro-omnibus

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


cryopod

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

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

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


ufok

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

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


zielony ludzik

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

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

cog

зелёные человечки

зелені чоловічки

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


holophone

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

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

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

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

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

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

(science fiction) A hologrammatic telecommunication device.


neurostunner

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

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

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

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

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


nadprzestrzeń

pl-noun

nadprzestrzeń f (related adjective nadprzestrzenny)

nadprzestrzenny (adjective)
nadprzestrzeń (nominative singular)
nadprzestrzeni (genitive singular)
nadprzestrzeni (dative singular)
nadprzestrzeń (accusative singular)
nadprzestrzenią (instrumental singular)
nadprzestrzeni (locative singular)
nadprzestrzeni (singular vocative)

(science fiction) hyperspace, nulspace, overspace, subspace (notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel)


nadprzestrzenny

pl-adj

nadprzestrzenny (not comparable, no derived adverb)

nadprzestrzenny (masculine nominative singular)
nadprzestrzenna (feminine nominative singular)
nadprzestrzenne (neuter nominative singular)
nadprzestrzenni (nominative plural virile)
nadprzestrzenne (nominative plural)
nadprzestrzennego (genitive masculine singular)
nadprzestrzennej (feminine genitive singular)
nadprzestrzennego (genitive neuter singular)
nadprzestrzennych (genitive plural)
nadprzestrzennych (genitive plural virile)
nadprzestrzennemu (dative masculine singular)
nadprzestrzennej (dative feminine singular)
nadprzestrzennemu (dative neuter singular)
nadprzestrzennym (dative plural)
nadprzestrzennym (dative plural virile)
nadprzestrzennego (accusative animate masculine singular)
nadprzestrzenny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
nadprzestrzenną (accusative feminine singular)
nadprzestrzenne (accusative neuter singular)
nadprzestrzennych (accusative plural virile)
nadprzestrzenne (accusative plural)
nadprzestrzennym (instrumental masculine singular)
nadprzestrzenną (feminine instrumental singular)
nadprzestrzennym (instrumental neuter singular)
nadprzestrzennymi (instrumental plural)
nadprzestrzennymi (instrumental plural virile)
nadprzestrzennym (locative masculine singular)
nadprzestrzennej (feminine locative singular)
nadprzestrzennym (locative neuter singular)
nadprzestrzennych (locative plural)
nadprzestrzennych (locative plural virile)

(relational, science fiction) hyperspatial (pertaining to hyperspace)


sunwing

While we still had the giant sunwings we traveled the world, exploring other continents from the air.

2003, Sean Mcmullen, Eyes of the Calculor:

Slowly, on parallel tracks into the breeze, the sunwings rolled off.

(science fiction) A wing or extension designed to capture energy from sunlight.


psychoscope

(chiefly science fiction) A proposed device able to read a person's thoughts or to provide psychiatric diagnosis.


X-ray spectacles

(science fiction) Spectacles that allow the wearer to see through solid objects such as walls or clothing.


terrestrial time

(science fiction) Time based on the time system used on Earth, consisting of 24-hour days.


Terrian

oc-noun

Terrian m (plural Terrians, feminine Terriana, feminine plural Terrianas)

Terrians (plural)
Terriana (feminine)
Terrianas (feminine plural)

(chiefly science fiction) Earthling, Terran (resident or native of the planet Earth)


Moonite

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


time vampire

Do you mean that Jarmyn Thanatos is some kind of a— a time vampire?

1997, Brad Strickland, John Bellairs, The Bell, the Book and the Spellbinder:

“I'm a time vampire,” Loretta Vampireclanso-called-jiangshi said. “I can take time from people, or give it away.”

2017, Emily Martha Sorensen, Trials of a Teenage Werevulture:

But I was laying low, and vampires can't always be choosers, even time vampires.

(science fiction) A variety of vampire that feeds off time or potential years of life.


spacelab

(especially science fiction) A laboratory in outer space.


drop pod

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(science fiction) A re-entry vehicle, often single-use, used to deploy infantry or ground vehicles from an orbiting starship to a planet's surface.


military science fiction

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on military technology, characters, and conflicts.


earbug

This cab couldn't transmit to his earbug.

With the earbug in, she could access data almost as quickly as with the implant.

2010, Elizabeth Moon, Trading In Danger: Vatta's War:

Mitsuharu pressed a finger to his earbug, jumping channels until the hissing growl of the enemy flooded in, making him wince.

2011, Thomas Harlan, Land of the Dead, page 349:

The earbug nanomites in Tan-Tan's ear became infected during the dimensional shift.

2014, Allan Weiss, The Canadian Fantastic in Focus:

(science fiction) Any of various fictional devices that a person can listen to when it is installed in their ear.


ტელეკინეზი

ṭeleḳinezi (romanization)
ტელეკინეზი (nominative singular)
ტელეკინეზმა (ergative singular)
ტელეკინეზს (dative singular)
ტელეკინეზს (dative singular)
ტელეკინეზსაs) (dative singular)
ტელეკინეზსაsa) (dative singular)
ტელეკინეზის (genitive singular)
ტელეკინეზის (genitive singular)
ტელეკინეზისაs) (genitive singular)
ტელეკინეზისაsa) (genitive singular)
ტელეკინეზით (instrumental singular)
ტელეკინეზით (instrumental singular)
ტელეკინეზითაt) (instrumental singular)
ტელეკინეზითაta) (instrumental singular)
ტელეკინეზად (adverbial singular)
ტელეკინეზად (adverbial singular)
ტელეკინეზადაd) (adverbial singular)
ტელეკინეზადაda) (adverbial singular)
ტელეკინეზო (singular vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
ტელეკინეზზე (singular)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
ტელეკინეზთან (singular)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
ტელეკინეზში (singular)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
ტელეკინეზივით (singular)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
ტელეკინეზისთვის (singular)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
ტელეკინეზისებრ (singular)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
ტელეკინეზისკენ (singular)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
ტელეკინეზისგან (singular)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
ტელეკინეზიდან (singular)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
ტელეკინეზითურთ (singular)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
ტელეკინეზამდე (singular)

ტე‧ლე‧კი‧ნე‧ზი

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) telekinesis


ტელეპათია

ṭeleṗatia (romanization)
ტელეპათია (nominative singular)
ტელეპათიამ (ergative singular)
ტელეპათიას (dative singular)
ტელეპათიას (dative singular)
ტელეპათიასაs) (dative singular)
ტელეპათიასაsa) (dative singular)
ტელეპათიის (genitive singular)
ტელეპათიის (genitive singular)
ტელეპათიისაs) (genitive singular)
ტელეპათიისაsa) (genitive singular)
ტელეპათიით (instrumental singular)
ტელეპათიით (instrumental singular)
ტელეპათიითაt) (instrumental singular)
ტელეპათიითაta) (instrumental singular)
ტელეპათიად (adverbial singular)
ტელეპათიად (adverbial singular)
ტელეპათიადაd) (adverbial singular)
ტელეპათიადაda) (adverbial singular)
ტელეპათიავ (singular vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
ტელეპათიაზე (singular)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
ტელეპათიასთან (singular)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
ტელეპათიაში (singular)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
ტელეპათიასავით (singular)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
ტელეპათიისთვის (singular)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
ტელეპათიისებრ (singular)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
ტელეპათიისკენ (singular)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
ტელეპათიისგან (singular)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
ტელეპათიიდან (singular)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
ტელეპათიითურთ (singular)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
ტელეპათიამდე (singular)

ტე‧ლე‧პა‧თია

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) telepathy


კრიოკინეზი

ḳrioḳinezi (romanization)
კრიოკინეზი (nominative singular)
კრიოკინეზმა (ergative singular)
კრიოკინეზს (dative singular)
კრიოკინეზს (dative singular)
კრიოკინეზსაs) (dative singular)
კრიოკინეზსაsa) (dative singular)
კრიოკინეზის (genitive singular)
კრიოკინეზის (genitive singular)
კრიოკინეზისაs) (genitive singular)
კრიოკინეზისაsa) (genitive singular)
კრიოკინეზით (instrumental singular)
კრიოკინეზით (instrumental singular)
კრიოკინეზითაt) (instrumental singular)
კრიოკინეზითაta) (instrumental singular)
კრიოკინეზად (adverbial singular)
კრიოკინეზად (adverbial singular)
კრიოკინეზადაd) (adverbial singular)
კრიოკინეზადაda) (adverbial singular)
კრიოკინეზო (singular vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
კრიოკინეზზე (singular)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
კრიოკინეზთან (singular)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
კრიოკინეზში (singular)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
კრიოკინეზივით (singular)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
კრიოკინეზისთვის (singular)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
კრიოკინეზისებრ (singular)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
კრიოკინეზისკენ (singular)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
კრიოკინეზისგან (singular)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
კრიოკინეზიდან (singular)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
კრიოკინეზითურთ (singular)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
კრიოკინეზამდე (singular)

კრი‧ო‧კი‧ნე‧ზი

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) cryokinesis


პიროკინეზი

ṗiroḳinezi (romanization)
პიროკინეზი (nominative singular)
პიროკინეზმა (ergative singular)
პიროკინეზს (dative singular)
პიროკინეზს (dative singular)
პიროკინეზსაs) (dative singular)
პიროკინეზსაsa) (dative singular)
პიროკინეზის (genitive singular)
პიროკინეზის (genitive singular)
პიროკინეზისაs) (genitive singular)
პიროკინეზისაsa) (genitive singular)
პიროკინეზით (instrumental singular)
პიროკინეზით (instrumental singular)
პიროკინეზითაt) (instrumental singular)
პიროკინეზითაta) (instrumental singular)
პიროკინეზად (adverbial singular)
პიროკინეზად (adverbial singular)
პიროკინეზადაd) (adverbial singular)
პიროკინეზადაda) (adverbial singular)
პიროკინეზო (singular vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
პიროკინეზზე (singular)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
პიროკინეზთან (singular)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
პიროკინეზში (singular)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
პიროკინეზივით (singular)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
პიროკინეზისთვის (singular)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
პიროკინეზისებრ (singular)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
პიროკინეზისკენ (singular)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
პიროკინეზისგან (singular)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
პიროკინეზიდან (singular)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
პიროკინეზითურთ (singular)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
პიროკინეზამდე (singular)

პი‧რო‧კი‧ნე‧ზი

(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) pyrokinesis


time belt

I've set it for the year dot, as it were. I wonder how long ago that is? A million years? A billion? They will put the time belt on the creature and press the little button.

1997, Robert Rankin, Nostradamus Ate My Hamster, page 309:

Lancaster explains to Kensington that Kensington must put on the Time Belt—it's set to take him back to the moment of the assassination and will automatically merge him back into the proper time stream.

1999, J. Neil Schulman, Profile in Silver: And Other Screenwritings:

The time belt was pretty much the same as all the others he'd worn, but it had no settings.

2013, Jack L. Chalker, Downtiming the Night Side:

(science fiction) A belt that is worn to enable the wearer to travel through time.


time compression

en-noun

time compression (countable and uncountable, plural time compressions)

(science fiction) The concept of condensing all of time and space into a single moment, or a singularity.


time trace

time trace (countable and uncountable, plural time traces)

(science fiction) A temporal phenomenon in which a creature is trapped in the same place, but in a different second of time leaves behind a palpable trace.


time stop

(science fiction) A process by which an object is stopped in time.


time integration

(science fiction) The process of extracting versions of a person from a different time period or a timeline and integrating them into a single person.


dịch chuyển tức thời

[zïk̟̚˧˨ʔ t͡ɕwiən˧˩ tɨk̚˧˦ tʰəːj˨˩]

[jɨt̚˨˩ʔ t͡ɕwiəŋ˧˨ tɨk̚˦˧˥ tʰəːj˦˩]

[jɨt̚˨˩˨ c⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˨˩˦ tɨk̚˦˥ tʰəːj˨˩]

dịch chuyển (“to move”) + tức thời (“instant”). The alternative form with tức thì is rather rare, although as a free morpheme, tức thì is more common.


dịch chuyển tức thời

[zïk̟̚˧˨ʔ t͡ɕwiən˧˩ tɨk̚˧˦ tʰəːj˨˩]

[jɨt̚˨˩ʔ t͡ɕwiəŋ˧˨ tɨk̚˦˧˥ tʰəːj˦˩]

[jɨt̚˨˩˨ c⁽ʷ⁾iəŋ˨˩˦ tɨk̚˦˥ tʰəːj˨˩]


międzywymiarowy

pl-adj

międzywymiarowy (not comparable, derived adverb międzywymiarowo)

międzywymiarowy (masculine nominative singular)
międzywymiarowa (feminine nominative singular)
międzywymiarowe (neuter nominative singular)
międzywymiarowi (nominative plural virile)
międzywymiarowe (nominative plural)
międzywymiarowego (genitive masculine singular)
międzywymiarowej (feminine genitive singular)
międzywymiarowego (genitive neuter singular)
międzywymiarowych (genitive plural)
międzywymiarowych (genitive plural virile)
międzywymiarowemu (dative masculine singular)
międzywymiarowej (dative feminine singular)
międzywymiarowemu (dative neuter singular)
międzywymiarowym (dative plural)
międzywymiarowym (dative plural virile)
międzywymiarowego (accusative animate masculine singular)
międzywymiarowy (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
międzywymiarową (accusative feminine singular)
międzywymiarowe (accusative neuter singular)
międzywymiarowych (accusative plural virile)
międzywymiarowe (accusative plural)
międzywymiarowym (instrumental masculine singular)
międzywymiarową (feminine instrumental singular)
międzywymiarowym (instrumental neuter singular)
międzywymiarowymi (instrumental plural)
międzywymiarowymi (instrumental plural virile)
międzywymiarowym (locative masculine singular)
międzywymiarowej (feminine locative singular)
międzywymiarowym (locative neuter singular)
międzywymiarowych (locative plural)
międzywymiarowych (locative plural virile)


mindrape

en-noun

mindrape (countable and uncountable, plural mindrapes)

(science fiction, fantasy) Alternative form of mind rape


mindrape

en-verb

mindrape (third-person singular simple present mindrapes, present participle mindraping, simple past and past participle mindraped)

mindrapes (present singular third-person)
mindraping (participle present)
mindraped (participle past)
mindraped (past)

(transitive, science fiction, fantasy) Alternative form of mind rape


mind rape

en-noun

mind rape (countable and uncountable, plural mind rapes)

"Memeticists exploit the anomalous to change how people see the world," Del Olmo continued. "We make them believe things which aren't true, when that's convenient for us. We make them believe things that are true, when bad actors have occluded their vision. We make them forget things. We make them see things which aren't there. We make them see things which are there, which they nevertheless can't see. We do it with imagery, with words, with sounds. It's the parascience of suggestion." He was really getting into the speech, gesturing with increasing excitement and constantly having to push his rectangular spectacles back up the bridge of his Roman nose.

2022 September 22, HarryBlank, “Mind Over Matter”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

(science fiction, fantasy) Nonconsensual intrusion into one's mind; the reading, modification, or control, by another, of one's thoughts or memories without one's consent, especially if forcible.


mind rape

en-verb

mind rape (third-person singular simple present mind rapes, present participle mind raping, simple past and past participle mind raped)

mind rapes (present singular third-person)
mind raping (participle present)
mind raped (participle past)
mind raped (past)

"You... you mindraped my boyfriend!" "I am sorry."

2011 December 5, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2024-05-25:

(transitive, science fiction, fantasy) To read, modify, or control (especially forcibly) another person's thoughts or memories without their consent.