jetter

/ˈd͡ʒɛtə(ɹ)/

The jetter was upon us and it was a piston-powered engine.

1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Aircraft Production Costs and Profits, page 1823:

Five hundred and forty-two men moved by jetter to Colorado Springs;thence, by helicopter, to the canyon hideaway.

1958 October, Robert Bloch, “This Crowded Earth”, in Amazing Science Fiction Stories:

Kiron maneuvered the jetter around obstacles, and glided into the open ocean.

Miles' and MERC's attempts to remove a crate of fireworks from their star-jetter sends it hurtling into space, requiring the team to pursue it in the jetter with Grandmother Po Po piloting.

2019, William D. Crump, Happy Holidays--Animated!, page 177:

(often science fiction) A vehicle or engine that works by jet propulsion.


shipside

(science fiction) On a spaceship, rather than on a planet etc.


moonling

From moon + -ling. Compare moon-related origins of lunacy and lunatic.

A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth.

1981, Ruth Beall Heinig, Lyda Stillwell, Creative Drama for the Classroom Teacher, page 248:

For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?

2010, Michael M. Domach, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, page 204:

This, together with the 'balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspaper' in which the dwarf/moonling descends at the tale's opening, points to some self-referential satire on behalf of Poe, a newspaperman himself.

2016, Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction, page 142:

(science fiction) Someone from the Moon.


jetcar

(science fiction) A car capable of travelling at very high speeds.


aircar

(science fiction) A car capable of flight.


reptiloid

Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms.

1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 15, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A reptilian humanoid creature.


meteorometer

By gravitometer and meteorometer readings, Curt located the few solid bodies in the cloud

2013, Edmond Hamilton, The Magician of Mars, page .:

(science fiction) A device for locating meteors.


teleshow

(chiefly science fiction) a television show.


podder

Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod.

2007, Samuel Blankson, The Kolumbas Affair, page 195:

'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained.

2010, Robertski Brothers, The McAtrix Derided:

Paul says he started out as a Podder. He tried to do development deals with the Inner and Outer Systems, and he only became a renegade when he was betrayed by both.'

2013, Charles Sheffield, Proteus Unbound:

(science fiction) One who was born in or lives in a pod.


wallcrawling

(science fiction) Having the ability to crawl upon vertical surfaces.


metallokinesis

(science fiction) The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals


technopathy

In a shocking turn of events, the President's aid, Valerie Cooper, discovers that Reverend Stryker is actually a mutant himself with the power of technopathy – the ability to mentally manipulate machinery.

2012, Nick Spencer, Ultimate Comics X-Men by Nick Spencer Vol. 1, Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN:

Now that he was able to think, he reached out with his technopathy, searching the fishing hut. To his relief, he sensed a battery-operated light inside. He turned it on.

2019, Pittacus Lore, Into the Fire: The Legacy Chronicles, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A psychic ability to control electronic machinery and/or read electronic signals, especially hardware.


starman

(science fiction) An alien; a person who comes from another star system.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of a star.


astroscope

astroscopes and other high precision optical devices

1952, Moody's Industrials - Volume 24, page 2825:

[…] refractors, catadioptric reflectors, astroscopes as well as binoculars.

1987, Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, page 24:

I, for one, want to go back to when there were only seven planets! Before the lies of the astroscopes, telling us there are two more in the sky named Neptune and Pluto!

2012, Justin Mazzotta, Corp.Se Commander: Tactics of Corporate Warfare, page 39:

Well, think about it; we can see Rrth from here using astroscopes and the like, but the light we're seeing left Rrth many orbits ago.

They tempted him into this thing, setting out an astroscope on the hills. . .hoping to be the first ones to spot aliens!

2017, Philip Byron Philips, Towers of Royal City, page 46:

In a spacious apartment on the third floor which contained two powerful telescopes, constructed on principles of entirely modern invention, being capable of revealing the distant suns to an extent never before dreamt of, was Mercia surrounded by curious astroscopes, stellar-spectroscopes, and wonderfully constructed cameras, which delineated in an instant the starry heights, the glory of which has been the ambition of astronomers in all ages to fathom.

2023, A. Garland Mears, Mercia, the astronomer royal:

(chiefly science fiction) A telescope powerful enough to see astronomical bodies.


homiform

In the homiform frame embruted, to the classes of the grades

1883, George Thomas May, The Ever-living Life:

The droids belonging to the renegade faction were slaves, despite often having superior intellect and physical prowess, “athletic” capabilities (at least this was so with many of the homiform “androids”)

2013, Dean Vyas, Pastimes of the Unseen:

(obsolete, rare or science fiction) In human form.


aérotrain

From aéro- + train. Attested in 1890 as aéro-train.

(obsolete, science fiction) aerotrain (flying vehicle)


isochronon

A bedside isochronon diffused a soft-light 9:30

1980, Felix C. Gotschalk, “The Wishes of Maidens”, in George R. R. Martin, editor, New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees, page 175:

(chiefly science fiction) A clock designed to keep very accurate time.


teleportal

(science fiction) A teleporter; a device for instantaneous travel.


venusiano

(science fiction) Venusian (inhabitant of Venus)


spaceway

At first Gallagher and his glacier were a roar of laughter that swept the spaceways[…]

1964, John Wood Campbell, Analog science fact/science fiction:

(science fiction) A route used for travel or shipping in outer space.


teleportage

At the same time there is no fantasy, as there is in the teleportage of science fiction, or in the Greek myth that requires the insemination of a woman by a swan.

2010, Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job, page 158:


mammaloid

(science fiction) A mammalian humanoid creature.


asteroidian

But you remained conservative, A changeless asteroidian.

1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries, page 706:

Whatever else can be said about the world inhabited by Lesabéndio and his fellow asteroidians, this much is certain: their proper names derive from the first sounds they emit, not from a procedure of designation akin to the establishment of technical terms, and the laws governing the waxing and waning of their bodies are unlike those under which the bodies on the surface of the earth fall.

2011, Peter Fenves, The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time, page 230:

What gags Flora is that Rod blew the Saturnienne to protect the asteroidians against North American culture , even though that cut him off from one wife, one concubine, and one son.

2014, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife, page 157:

(science fiction) One who is from or lives on an asteroid.


iguanoid

Because rumor has it, that they are three times as ugly, meaner, greedier and war mongering than the Earthlings, could ever be. Yes, if you can believe it, they are even worse than the Iguanoids.

2013, R. J. Denardo, The Captain's Propensity: The Andromeda Incident II, page 179:

Iguanoids stand three foot five to five five and use their long tail for balance.

2021, Craig Campobasso, The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac, page 231:

The Chameleons, another species connected to the Iguanoids, are characterized as a colorful race of reptilians that serve as watchers or guards for the Draco Reptilians, informing them of the political events taking place around the galaxy.

2023, Malik Bade, The Matrix & The Forbidden Knowledge - Extraterrestrial Edition, page 161:

(science fiction) A type of reptilian (reptilian alien)


atompunk

In fact, there was a fair amount of stuff around in the 60s and 70s that can only be explained as cross-dimensional leakage from an Atompunk universe.

2001 October 31, Simon Bradshaw, “Re: Steampunk Recommendations?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <memo.20011031191447.43761C@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk>:

Perfect "atompunk" feel – reactors with nervous engineers and analog controls.

2002 June 10, Mike Simone, “Re: Land Battleships”, in rec.arts.sf.science, rec.games.design (Usenet), message-ID <152bbdf6.0206101038.72e312be@posting.google.com>:

For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be "dieselpunk", "atompunk", or "rocketpunk" – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the "punk" aspect as it's possible to get.

2004 March 6, Michael S. Schiffer, “Re: Earth-2 Legion Synopsis”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh (Usenet), message-ID <Xns94A49BD7E514mss2mediaonenet@130.133.1.4>:

According to a mailing list from the Netherlands, Atompunk is devoted to the cultural period (mostly of the United States) of between 1945 to 1965. While the moniker hasn't become a part of our country's vernacular yet (though I'm sure some of you already started using it ages ago), it sounds just annoyingly catchy enough to warrant a New York Times trend piece in about eight years.

2012 April 8, Elaine Chow, “Space Age Fetishism Getting Silly New Moniker: Atompunk”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2016-08-28:

Atompunk covers the pre-digital period of 1945–1965, including mid-century Modernism, the Atomic Age and Space Age. Throw Roger Thornhill's suits in this basket, and everything ever worn on Mad Men. This takes us right up to the mid '60s, when the fictional worlds of yesterday abut the real worlds you grew up in.

2012, William J. Thompson, “Time Travel”, in Dress Like a Grownup!: A Complete Tutorial for the Average Guy, 2nd edition, volume 1, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, part 2 (Advanced Theory), page 55:

You keep imagining someone 20 years from now reading The Peripheral the way that we read Neuromancer today, perplexed at the now-unfathomable ubiquity of cassettes and modems. We laugh at the past or mine it for influence – think of steampunk, atompunk, dieselpunk, and the million other microgenres based on the incongruity of old societies and future tech – but someday, the future is going to do the same to us.

2014 October 27, Adi Robertson, “William Gibson’s ‘The Peripheral’: Looking Back at the Future: A Smart, Nuanced Twist on Time Travel”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-05-05:

Additionally, while [Sebastian] Faulks aspires to write as [Ian] Fleming, he takes care to increase the serving of action, in fact including some interesting bits of atompunk—a nuclear-powered ekranoplan, Vulcan bombers.

2015, Nader Elhefnawy, The Forgotten James Bond, [s.l.]: [s.n.]:

(science fiction) A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1969).


hypospray

(chiefly science fiction) A kind of jet injector.


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)


pocketphone

(dated or science fiction) A telephone that fits in one's pocket; a mobile phone.


atmo

(science fiction) atmosphere (of a planet)


Pleiadean

(science fiction, ufology) An alien being from the Pleiades.


exterminador

pt-noun

exterminador m (plural exterminadores, feminine exterminadora, feminine plural exterminadoras)

exterminadores (plural)
exterminadora (feminine)
exterminadoras (feminine plural)

From Latin exterminātōrem. By surface analysis, exterminar + -dor.

(science fiction) terminator (artificial intelligence machine created to destroy humans)


commlink

A great aurora spread across the heavens, and the Thukker infantrymen lost all hope as their commlinks went dead and the TACNET dropped offline. In that moment, each man understood that they were doomed.

2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:

Sheppard removed his commlink unit and attempted to access the engineering duty officer to report the occurrence.

(science fiction) A communications device.


vidphone

1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting for William Shatner), TekWar
The vidphone screen remained blank. “You're looking good, Jake, looking very good all things considered.” “Wish I could say the same for you, Wiz. Why the blackout?” “Reasons, I got my reasons,” came the whispering voice […]


eyephone

One system in the works in this country would have us wearing "eyephones," a helmet-like apparatus with a small TV screen […] With the eyephones, each eye will receive only one field, but filters will adjust the picture.

1979, Science digest: Volume 86, Issue 2:

Further along on the "naturalness of use" continuum are today's working VR projects where users are tethered by devices such as eyephones and datagloves.

1993, Diane M. Gayeski, Multimedia for Learning: Development, Application, Evaluation, page 82:

State-of-the-art eyephones (head mounted visual displays) are not considered to be suitable for providing a realistic or natural visual environment.

1997, Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, Richard Winski, Spoken Language Characterisation, page 185:

The key element in this group of technologies is 'automatic head position tracking', which allows the wearer of an eyephone to scan a computer-generated landscape in a quasi-natural way.

1998, Richard Gough, Ric Allsopp, Claire MacDonald, On Tourism, page 12:

He locked the door, put the CLOSED sign up, and went into the back room where he found the boy still seated, cross-legged, as he'd left him, his face hidden by the massive old eyephones cabled to the open notebook in his lap.

1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties:

“That apparatus you see on his head is an eyephone. Inside it are tiny video screens that are transmitting to its wearer images of an opponent on the other end […]

2008, Thomas Quealy, Is That You?, page 87:

(sometimes science fiction) A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.


wanderstar

From wander + star, probably a calque of German Wandelstern (“planet”). Compare the historic term wandering star, like the German term ultimately a calque from Ancient Greek.

He had thumbed about in Chants of a Wander-Star last night in bed and wondered about the career of that marginal versifier — born out of his proper time and now remembered by Ackley in an era even less proper.

1994, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror:

A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk.

He passed gulls, terns, cormorants as if they were standing still. Now and then a wander-star crossed the heavens: one of the metal eyes the ancients hung over Alifros to spy on their enemies.

2009, Robert V. S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy:

(science fiction, fantasy) A wandering star or other similar heavenly body; a comet; meteor; planet.


Vril

Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.

coined

These subterranean philosophers assert that by one operation of vril, which Faraday would perhaps call ‘atmospheric magnetism,’ they can influence the variations of temperature—in plain words, the weather; […]

1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (published anonymously), The Coming Race, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 47:

It devoted its time to the study of vril, and taught that the secret of vril could be divined by contemplating the structure of an apple sliced in half.

2003, John Michael Greer, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, Llewellyn Publications, page 506:

I have written a second book, Vrilology, which explores the historic background of the Life Force, which we refer to as Vril, and another simple book explaining just what Vril is and how it can help people improve their lives, filling them with happiness, joy and prosperity.

2010, Robert Blumetti, Vril: The Life Force of the Gods, iUniverse, page 7:

(science fiction, mysticism) A controllable form of energy.


overskies

(science fiction) interplanetary, intergalactic.


overskies

(science fiction) Between planets (in the same or different system).


skyship

(science fiction) A vehicle that flies through the sky.


helijet

Tomiko waited less than an hour, then flew with Harfex to the area where Osden had reported himself the night before. But as the helijet hovered over the sea of purplish leaves, illimitable, impenetrable, she felt a panic despair.

1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow:

Suddenly there was a glare of fight and the sound of an explosion from one of the other helijets, the one carrying Blare Oblomot. Heshke gasped with shock, and saw the flaring skeleton of the jet plummeting earthward in the darkness.

2001, Barrington J. Bayley, Collision with Chronos, page 20:

The two men heard a sound from above, and looked up to see three police helijets hovering overhead.

2002, Moss Tosney, The Ten Percent Man, page 572:

(science fiction) A flying vehicle resembling a helicopter and/or a jet.


sásar eitilte

head

sásar eitilte m (genitive singular sásair eitilte, nominative plural sásair eitilte)

sásair eitilte (genitive singular)
sásair eitilte (nominative plural)
sásar eitilte
shásar eitilte
tsásar eitilte

(science fiction, ufology) flying saucer


toilleoir flosca

toilleoir flosca m (genitive singular toilleora fhlosca, nominative plural toilleoirí flosca)

toilleora fhlosca (genitive singular)
toilleoirí flosca (nominative plural)
toilleoir flosca
thoilleoir flosca
dtoilleoir flosca


freangadh ama

freangadh ama m (genitive singular freangtha ama)

freangtha ama (genitive singular)
freangadh ama
fhreangadh ama
bhfreangadh ama


eachtrán

eachtrán m (genitive singular eachtráin, nominative plural eachtráin)

eachtráin (genitive singular)
eachtráin (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
eachtrán (indefinite singular)
eachtráin (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a eachtráin (indefinite singular)
a eachtrána (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
eachtráin (indefinite singular)
eachtrán (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-eachtrán (definite singular)
na heachtráin (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an eachtráin (definite singular)
na n-eachtrán (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an eachtrán (definite singular)
don eachtrán (definite singular)
leis na heachtráin (definite plural)
eachtrán
n-eachtrán
heachtrán
t-eachtrán

/ˈax.tˠɾˠɑːɴˠ/

/ax.ˈtˠɾˠɑːnˠ/

/ˈax.tˠɾˠɑːɴˠ/

From Old Irish echtar (“without, outside”) + -án.


eachtardhomhandach

eachtardhomhandach m (genitive singular eachtardhomhandaigh, nominative plural eachtardhomhandaigh)

eachtardhomhandaigh (genitive singular)
eachtardhomhandaigh (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
eachtardhomhandach (indefinite singular)
eachtardhomhandaigh (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a eachtardhomhandaigh (indefinite singular)
a eachtardhomhandacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
eachtardhomhandaigh (indefinite singular)
eachtardhomhandach (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-eachtardhomhandach (definite singular)
na heachtardhomhandaigh (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an eachtardhomhandaigh (definite singular)
na n-eachtardhomhandach (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an eachtardhomhandach (definite singular)
don eachtardhomhandach (definite singular)
leis na heachtardhomhandaigh (definite plural)
eachtardhomhandach
n-eachtardhomhandach
heachtardhomhandach
t-eachtardhomhandach

From eachtar- (“extra-”) + domhanda (“terrestrial”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).


Marsach

head

Marsach m (genitive singular Marsaigh, nominative plural Marsaigh)

Marsaigh (genitive singular)
Marsaigh (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
Marsach (indefinite singular)
Marsaigh (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a Mharsaigh (indefinite singular)
a Mharsacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
Marsaigh (indefinite singular)
Marsach (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an Marsach (definite singular)
na Marsaigh (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an Mharsaigh (definite singular)
na Marsach (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an Marsach (definite singular)
don Mharsach (definite singular)
leis na Marsaigh (definite plural)
Marsach
Mharsach


holoprojection

(science fiction) A holographic projection.


holoprojector

“I like to keep an eye on my investments. Including an eye that not everyone knows about, which doesn’t show up unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Garson’s holo crossed the room to stand next to a counter. “I mean, I am an eccentric genius, after all.”
“So you can project yourself throughout this ship? Anywhere?”
“Not everywhere, but I’ve got holo projectors in most places. Paid for them myself.”

2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 15, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 284–285:

(science fiction) A holographic projector.


holovid

/ˈhɒləʊˌvɪd/

4 March, 1973, Harlan Ellison, "The Day I Died"
I was on a publicity tour for the book, fresh from a talk show over holovid.

He motioned at the holovid, still running in the corner.

2003, Liz Moore, Noble Savage, page 200:

He took her over to the holovid projector and she watched the holovids taken by pilots flying along the length of the ship.

2008, Helgard de Barros, The Second Skin, page 164:

(science fiction) A holographic projection of a series of images, like a video recording.


ODP

orbital defense platform
orbital defense platform#English

(science fiction) Initialism of orbital defense platform.


skybike

The creature was actually doing a neat job of demolition, using scissorlike claws to chop the sky-bike into small pieces.

1972, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama:

(science fiction) A bicycle capable of levitation.


euth

en-verb

euth (third-person singular simple present euths, present participle euthing, simple past and past participle euthed)

euths (present singular third-person)
euthing (participle present)
euthed (participle past)
euthed (past)

Thereafter the job of euthing was transferred to the chief medical officer, who it was felt would have less emotional involvement.

1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama:


subuniverse

(science fiction) A universe contained within another universe.


brainwipe

brainwipe (third-person singular simple present brainwipes, present participle brainwiping, simple past and past participle brainwiped)

brainwipes (present singular third-person)
brainwiping (participle present)
brainwiped (participle past)
brainwiped (past)

(transitive, science fiction) To mindwipe.


parallel world

(science fiction, sciences) A reality or world that exists simultaneously with ours, but independent of it.


leijuri

leijuri (nominative singular)
leijurit (nominative plural)
leijuri (accusative nominative singular)
leijurit (accusative nominative plural)
leijurin (accusative genitive singular)
leijurit (accusative genitive plural)
leijurin (genitive singular)
leijurien (genitive plural)
leijureiden (genitive plural)
leijureitten (genitive plural)
leijuria (partitive singular)
leijureita (partitive plural)
leijureja (partitive plural)
leijurissa (inessive singular)
leijureissa (inessive plural)
leijurista (elative singular)
leijureista (elative plural)
leijuriin (illative singular)
leijureihin (illative plural)
leijurilla (adessive singular)
leijureilla (adessive plural)
leijurilta (ablative singular)
leijureilta (ablative plural)
leijurille (allative singular)
leijureille (allative plural)
leijurina (essive singular)
leijureina (essive plural)
leijuriksi (singular translative)
leijureiksi (plural translative)
leijuritta (abessive singular)
leijureitta (abessive plural)
leijurein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
leijurini (nominative singular)
leijurini (nominative plural)
leijurini (accusative nominative singular)
leijurini (accusative nominative plural)
leijurini (accusative genitive singular)
leijurini (accusative genitive plural)
leijurini (genitive singular)
leijurieni (genitive plural)
leijureideni (genitive plural)
leijureitteni (genitive plural)
leijuriani (partitive singular)
leijureitani (partitive plural)
leijurejani (partitive plural)
leijurissani (inessive singular)
leijureissani (inessive plural)
leijuristani (elative singular)
leijureistani (elative plural)
leijuriini (illative singular)
leijureihini (illative plural)
leijurillani (adessive singular)
leijureillani (adessive plural)
leijuriltani (ablative singular)
leijureiltani (ablative plural)
leijurilleni (allative singular)
leijureilleni (allative plural)
leijurinani (essive singular)
leijureinani (essive plural)
leijurikseni (singular translative)
leijureikseni (plural translative)
leijurittani (abessive singular)
leijureittani (abessive plural)
leijureineni (comitative plural)
leijurisi (nominative singular)
leijurisi (nominative plural)
leijurisi (accusative nominative singular)
leijurisi (accusative nominative plural)
leijurisi (accusative genitive singular)
leijurisi (accusative genitive plural)
leijurisi (genitive singular)
leijuriesi (genitive plural)
leijureidesi (genitive plural)
leijureittesi (genitive plural)
leijuriasi (partitive singular)
leijureitasi (partitive plural)
leijurejasi (partitive plural)
leijurissasi (inessive singular)
leijureissasi (inessive plural)
leijuristasi (elative singular)
leijureistasi (elative plural)
leijuriisi (illative singular)
leijureihisi (illative plural)
leijurillasi (adessive singular)
leijureillasi (adessive plural)
leijuriltasi (ablative singular)
leijureiltasi (ablative plural)
leijurillesi (allative singular)
leijureillesi (allative plural)
leijurinasi (essive singular)
leijureinasi (essive plural)
leijuriksesi (singular translative)
leijureiksesi (plural translative)
leijurittasi (abessive singular)
leijureittasi (abessive plural)
leijureinesi (comitative plural)
leijurimme (nominative singular)
leijurimme (nominative plural)
leijurimme (accusative nominative singular)
leijurimme (accusative nominative plural)
leijurimme (accusative genitive singular)
leijurimme (accusative genitive plural)
leijurimme (genitive singular)
leijuriemme (genitive plural)
leijureidemme (genitive plural)
leijureittemme (genitive plural)
leijuriamme (partitive singular)
leijureitamme (partitive plural)
leijurejamme (partitive plural)
leijurissamme (inessive singular)
leijureissamme (inessive plural)
leijuristamme (elative singular)
leijureistamme (elative plural)
leijuriimme (illative singular)
leijureihimme (illative plural)
leijurillamme (adessive singular)
leijureillamme (adessive plural)
leijuriltamme (ablative singular)
leijureiltamme (ablative plural)
leijurillemme (allative singular)
leijureillemme (allative plural)
leijurinamme (essive singular)
leijureinamme (essive plural)
leijuriksemme (singular translative)
leijureiksemme (plural translative)
leijurittamme (abessive singular)
leijureittamme (abessive plural)
leijureinemme (comitative plural)
leijurinne (nominative singular)
leijurinne (nominative plural)
leijurinne (accusative nominative singular)
leijurinne (accusative nominative plural)
leijurinne (accusative genitive singular)
leijurinne (accusative genitive plural)
leijurinne (genitive singular)
leijurienne (genitive plural)
leijureidenne (genitive plural)
leijureittenne (genitive plural)
leijurianne (partitive singular)
leijureitanne (partitive plural)
leijurejanne (partitive plural)
leijurissanne (inessive singular)
leijureissanne (inessive plural)
leijuristanne (elative singular)
leijureistanne (elative plural)
leijuriinne (illative singular)
leijureihinne (illative plural)
leijurillanne (adessive singular)
leijureillanne (adessive plural)
leijuriltanne (ablative singular)
leijureiltanne (ablative plural)
leijurillenne (allative singular)
leijureillenne (allative plural)
leijurinanne (essive singular)
leijureinanne (essive plural)
leijuriksenne (singular translative)
leijureiksenne (plural translative)
leijurittanne (abessive singular)
leijureittanne (abessive plural)
leijureinenne (comitative plural)
leijurinsa (nominative singular)
leijurinsa (nominative plural)
leijurinsa (accusative nominative singular)
leijurinsa (accusative nominative plural)
leijurinsa (accusative genitive singular)
leijurinsa (accusative genitive plural)
leijurinsa (genitive singular)
leijuriensa (genitive plural)
leijureidensa (genitive plural)
leijureittensa (genitive plural)
leijuriaan (partitive singular)
leijuriansa (partitive singular)
leijureitaan (partitive plural)
leijurejaan (partitive plural)
leijureitansa (partitive plural)
leijurejansa (partitive plural)
leijurissaan (inessive singular)
leijurissansa (inessive singular)
leijureissaan (inessive plural)
leijureissansa (inessive plural)
leijuristaan (elative singular)
leijuristansa (elative singular)
leijureistaan (elative plural)
leijureistansa (elative plural)
leijuriinsa (illative singular)
leijureihinsa (illative plural)
leijurillaan (adessive singular)
leijurillansa (adessive singular)
leijureillaan (adessive plural)
leijureillansa (adessive plural)
leijuriltaan (ablative singular)
leijuriltansa (ablative singular)
leijureiltaan (ablative plural)
leijureiltansa (ablative plural)
leijurilleen (allative singular)
leijurillensa (allative singular)
leijureilleen (allative plural)
leijureillensa (allative plural)
leijurinaan (essive singular)
leijurinansa (essive singular)
leijureinaan (essive plural)
leijureinansa (essive plural)
leijurikseen (singular translative)
leijuriksensa (singular translative)
leijureikseen (plural translative)
leijureiksensa (plural translative)
leijurittaan (abessive singular)
leijurittansa (abessive singular)
leijureittaan (abessive plural)
leijureittansa (abessive plural)
leijureineen (comitative plural)
leijureinensa (comitative plural)

leijua (“to hover”) + -uri. In the sense "anomalure", coined by Nisäkäsnimistötoimikunta (Committee for Mammal Names) in 2008. The older term for these animals is suomuhäntäorava (“lit. scale-tailed squirrel”), which still appears to be more frequently used (2012).

coin

(science fiction, computer games) A fictional aircraft capable of hovering.


sourstuff

From sour + stuff. Calque of German Sauerstoff (“oxygen”) and/or Dutch zuurstof (“oxygen”), both loose loan translations of French oxygène. See oxygen for more.

This is approximately the heat of exploding what the Germans call bang-gas (mixture of sourstuff and waterstuff), the result being liquid.

1887, The Electrical journal, volume 18, page 482:

For an outshow, the gang of water has two waterstuff unclefts bound to one sourstuff uncleft; the gang of rust has two iron and three sourstuff unclefts; [...]

Thus, everyday sourstuff has eight neitherbits with its eight firstbits, but there are also kinds with five, six, seven, nine, ten, and eleven neitherbits. A samestead is known by the tale of both kernel motes, so that we have sourstuff-13, sourstuff-14, and so on, with sourstuff-16 being by far the mostfound.

1997, Poul Anderson, All One Universe, →ISBN:

“Best you and your thane don your sourstuff masks now, Judge Scoglund,” Ankowaljuu said, returning to English so Park and Dunedin could not misunderstand him.

2013, Harry Turtledove & L. Sprague deCamp, Down in the Bottomlands: And Other Places, →ISBN:

(chemistry, nonstandard, science fiction, rare) Oxygen.


telebooth

One point three parsecs from Earth a heartbeat was being monitored by an Amneshahn telebooth.

2005, J. E. Hoyes, The Empath of Amneshah, Book One: Turba, page 3:

We have telebooths that take us considerable distances in an instant.

2007, Charles Edward Harris, Suns of God, page 196:

(science fiction) A booth from which one can teleport to another location.


starliner

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(science fiction) A large starship capable of transporting many passengers.


Stygian

Stygians – natives of Styx

1940, Edmond Hamilton, Calling Captain Future, page 55:

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


technopath

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with techno-telepathic ability, capable of reading the electrical signals of devices, such as computers, around them.


cyberpath

Claire nodded, remembering that Micah was, in essence, a cyberpath. He could mentally convince electronics and machines to do pretty much whatever he wanted.

2015, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Heroes Reborn - Book 5: Save The Cheerleader, Destroy The World:

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with techno-telepathic ability, capable of reading the electrical signals of electronic devices (such as computers) around them.


telecommunicator

(science fiction) A telecommunication device of various kinds.


robochef

These robochefs in the better apartment buildings really knew how to broil a sirloin.

1968, William R. Burkett, Sleeping Planet, page 163:

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


teletrasportarsi

it-verb

teletrasportàrsi (first-person singular present mi teletraspòrto, first-person singular past historic mi teletrasportài, past participle teletrasportàto)

teletrasportàrsi (canonical)
mi teletraspòrto (first-person present singular)
mi teletrasportài (first-person historic past singular)
teletrasportàto (participle past)
teletrasportàrsi (infinitive)
èssere (auxiliary)
teletrasportàndosi (gerund)
teletrasportànte (participle present)
teletrasportàto (participle past)
mi teletraspòrto (first-person indicative present singular)
ti teletraspòrti (indicative present second-person singular)
si teletraspòrta (indicative present singular third-person)
ci teletrasportiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
vi teletrasportàte (indicative plural present second-person)
si teletraspòrtano (indicative plural present third-person)
mi teletrasportàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ti teletrasportàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
si teletrasportàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ci teletrasportavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vi teletrasportavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
si teletrasportàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
mi teletrasportài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
ti teletrasportàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
si teletrasportò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
ci teletrasportàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
vi teletrasportàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
si teletrasportàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
mi teletrasporterò (first-person future indicative singular)
ti teletrasporterài (future indicative second-person singular)
si teletrasporterà (future indicative singular third-person)
ci teletrasporterémo (first-person future indicative plural)
vi teletrasporteréte (future indicative plural second-person)
si teletrasporterànno (future indicative plural third-person)
mi teletrasporterèi (conditional first-person present singular)
ti teletrasporterésti (conditional present second-person singular)
si teletrasporterèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
si teletrasporterébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
ci teletrasporterémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
vi teletrasporteréste (conditional plural present second-person)
si teletrasporterèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
si teletrasporterébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
mi teletraspòrti (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ti teletraspòrti (present second-person singular subjunctive)
si teletraspòrti (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ci teletrasportiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vi teletrasportiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
si teletraspòrtino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
mi teletrasportàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ti teletrasportàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
si teletrasportàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ci teletrasportàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vi teletrasportàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
si teletrasportàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
teletraspòrtati (imperative second-person singular)
si teletraspòrti (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
teletrasportiàmoci (first-person imperative plural)
teletrasportàtevi (imperative plural second-person)
si teletraspòrtino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
teletrasportàrti (imperative negative second-person singular)
ti teletrasportàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
si teletraspòrti (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
teletrasportiàmoci (first-person imperative negative plural)
ci teletrasportiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
teletrasportàtevi (imperative negative plural second-person)
vi teletrasportàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
si teletraspòrtino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

(intransitive, science fiction) to teleport, to be beamed


astroship

The astroships — as we have named the future space vehicles — will be much more comfortable than the Apollo cabins.

1969, Illustrated weekly of Pakistan, page 75:

But we'd need to coordinate our efforts with another astroship.

1999, Joseph Neil Schulman, Brad Linaweaver, Profile in Silver: And Other Screenwritings, page 472:

If these are astroships from someplace besides our specific, physical universe, maybe they come from a place where our laws of physics do not apply, where there is no such thing as velocity/momentum.

2007, Kelly D. Bell, Visitors: A New Look at UFOs:

(science fiction) A spaceship; a starship.


Sol II

From its position as the second planet out from the Sun (Sol).

(poetic, science fiction) An alternate name for the planet Venus.


Sol I

From its position as the first planet out from the Sun (Sol).

(poetic, science fiction) The planet Mercury.


Sol V

From its position as the fifth planet out from the Sun (Sol).

(poetic, science fiction) An alternate name for the planet Jupiter.


Sol IV

From its position as the fourth planet out from the Sun (Sol).

(poetic, science fiction) The planet Mars.


biopath

One biopath revealed masked tuberculosis with 14 of 46 patients, while another biopath only revealed this problem in 1 of 12.

1996, Sarah Cant, Ursula Sharma, Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Knowledge in Practice, page 123:

Biopaths like this one were low-rated telepaths whose powers lay in speaking to bodies rather than minds.

2017, K. Hippolite, The Rocket Girl's Tale, unnumbered page:

However, all telepathic biopaths were open to the committee members, who closed their eyes to listen to the sing-song voice of their first alien on planet Orthus.

2019, Darryl Gopaul, Encyclopedia Library, unnumbered page:

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with the telepathic ability to manipulate the physiology (e.g. heart rate, breathing or brainwaves) and voluntary motor functions of other people or organisms.


Vegan

Tommy looked deflated. He stepped back slightly, shaking his head. "Never saw such a resemblance. Are you a Vegan?" "No," Bart lied flatly. "Aldebaran. David Briscoe."

1963, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Colors of Space:

(science fiction) Someone from the vicinity of the star Vega.


ringworld

From ring + world, introduced by Larry Niven in the novel Ringworld (1970).

(science fiction) An artificial megastructure in space, consisting of a rotating ring encircling a star and having an inhabitable inner surface with gravity produced through centripetal force.


astroengineering

(science fiction) The construction of megastructures in space by technologically advanced beings.


Betelgeusian

(astronomy, science fiction) Relating to the star Betelgeuse or to inhabitants of the Betelgeuse system.


Betelgeusian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Betelgeuse system.


Betelgeusian

(science fiction) The language spoken by Betelgeusians.


starbase

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(science fiction) A base (for trading, military operations, etc.) located in space, among the stars.


slugthrower

He had been pulling the trigger of his slugthrower all this time, but now the firing pin clicked at last upon an empty firing chamber.

1965 December, Gordon R. Dickson, “Warrior”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 76, →ISSN, page 71:

Each had a holstered sidearm: slugthrower, not stunner.

1978, Poul Anderson, The Avatar, New York: Berkley, →ISBN, →OL, page 162:

From the confident manner with which she held her long-barreled slugthrower, Mirina guessed that some of the medals were for marksmanship.

1996, Jody Lynn Nye, The Ship Errant, Baen, →ISBN, →OL, page 65:

(science fiction) A firearm that fires bullets.


Eldar

→ Russian: Эльда́р (Elʹdár)

Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as Quenya Eldar, plural of Elda.

(science fiction) An elflike race of aliens from Warhammer 40,000, now known as Aeldari.

Эльда́р

magical humanoids from Tolkien's writings


合体

combination of multiple entities to become one

(science fiction, of robots) combining together and becoming a new, stronger robot


合体

合体する (canonical)
gattai suru (romanization)
合体し (stem)
合体した (past)
合体し
がったいし
gattai shi
合体する
がったいする
gattai suru
合体すれ
がったいすれ
gattai sure
合体せよ (imperative literary)
合体しろ (colloquial imperative)
がったいせよ (imperative literary)
がったいしろ (colloquial imperative)
gattai seyo (imperative literary)
gattai shiro (colloquial imperative)
合体される (passive)
がったいされる (passive)
gattai sareru (passive)
合体させる (causative)
合体さす (causative)
がったいさせる (causative)
がったいさす (causative)
gattai saseru (causative)
gattai sasu (causative)
合体できる (potential)
がったいできる (potential)
gattai dekiru (potential)
合体しよう (volitional)
がったいしよう (volitional)
gattai shiyō (volitional)
合体しない (negative)
がったいしない (negative)
gattai shinai (negative)
合体せず (continuative negative)
がったいせず (continuative negative)
gattai sezu (continuative negative)
合体します (formal)
がったいします (formal)
gattai shimasu (formal)
合体した (perfective)
がったいした (perfective)
gattai shita (perfective)
合体して (conjunctive)
がったいして (conjunctive)
gattai shite (conjunctive)
合体すれば (conditional hypothetical)
がったいすれば (conditional hypothetical)
gattai sureba (conditional hypothetical)

2016 June 18, “磁石の戦士α(マグネット・ウォリアー・アルファ) [Magnet Warrior Alpha]”, in STRUCTURE DECK 武藤遊戯 [Structure Deck: Mutō Yūgi], Konami:

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, together they unite and transform.

α、β、γで変形合体する。

Arufa, Bēta, Ganma de henkei gattai suru.

(of multiple entities) to combine and become one

(science fiction, of robots) to combine together and become a new, stronger robot


bat'leth

From Klingon betleH, short for batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”).

It is a bat'leth. It belonged to my father... It has been in our family for ten generations.

1990 November 5, “Reunion”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Worf (Michael Dorn):

The U.K. is looking to clean up its streets with a knife amnesty program, so you can imagine their surprise when a Klingon, er, excuse me, a Klingon fan, turned in a replica Bat’leth over the weekend.

2008 August 25, Jack Loftus, “U.K. Knife Amnesty Program Turns Up Klingon Bat’leth, No Sign of Worf”, in Gizmodo Australia, archived from the original on 2016-03-04:

Officers searched the area but didn't find the robber or the weapon, which was described as a "bat'leth."

2009 February 4, Kieran Nicholson, “Klingon sword used in two Colorado Springs heists”, in Denver Post:

Howard: Why did you bring that?
Sheldon: No weapon strikes more fear into a man's heart than a Klingon bat'leth.
Leonard: OK, let's get clear on something. We just gonna tell this guy to transfer all your stuff back into your account and then be on our way. No one's bat'lething anybody.

2011 March 31, “The Zarnecki Incursion” (15:59), in The Big Bang Theory, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Howard Wolowitz, Sheldon Cooper, and Leonard Hofstadter (Simon Helberg, Jim Parsons, and Johnny Galecki):

(science fiction) A double-ended curved blade weapon with spiked protrusions, controlled by grips along its back, used by Klingons in Star Trek.


spacedock

(science fiction) A place where spacecraft can dock.


Amalthean

/æməlˈθiːən/

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Amalthea.


cybersurgeon

(science fiction) A robot that performs the duties of a surgeon.


robodoc

Other than the most exceptional transplants, all operations were performed by cybersurgeons. These were robodocs, ArtAn nets hooked up to precision machines. They were exact and fast and dexterous.

2005, Alan Robbins, A Small Box of Chaos, page 64:

Sheppard observed several crew begin installing some of the robodocs in the medbay who would act as triage and initial aid to any wounded crew members or space marines.

(science fiction) A robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.


electrovore

/ɪˈlɛktɹəvɔː(ɹ)/

In Cosmos, Carl Sagan speculates on the existence of extraterrestrial civilisations, which he characterises pretentiously by means of hypothetical summaries such as: "cryogen supercooled electrovores with neutron crystal dense packing and modular starminers ..."

1984 November 8, Peter Forbes, “The silicon solution”, in New Scientist:

! WE DO NOT CONSUME EARTH FOOD. WE ARE ELECTROVORES. IF YOU
! HAVE A SURGE PROTECTOR WE WOULD BE MOST OBLIGED.

1998 October 30, Rollin Thomas, “New Borg Graduate Student.”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet):

There were, Gregory knew, AIs residing within implants in dolphin brains now designed to bridge the linguistic barriers between the species, but those translations had only proven that dolphin brains were as alien to humans as the group minds of the abyssal electrovores inhabiting the under-ice ocean of Enceladus.

2013, Ian Douglas, Deep Space: Star Carrier, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

(science fiction) An organism or entity which feeds on electricity.


warp drive

(physics, science fiction) A technological device that warps spacetime to enable movement through space in a non-Newtonian manner.

(science fiction) An engine that allows a vessel to travel faster-than-light by manipulating spacetime to bypass Einstein's restrictive light barrier.


machine à voyager dans le temps

fr-noun

machine à voyager dans le temps f (plural machines à voyager dans le temps)

machines à voyager dans le temps (plural)

Literally, “machine to travel in [the] time”.


machine à explorer le temps

fr-noun

machine à explorer le temps f (plural machines à explorer le temps)

L’auto bringuebalante qui m’avait amené devait être une machine à explorer le temps. Je n’avais pas seulement changé de pays, mais d’époque ; je reculais brusquement de mille ans.

1944, Roland Dorgelès, Route des tropiques, Albin Michel, page 24:


hard science fiction

Coined by American critic P. Schuyler Miller in 1957.

coin

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on technical detail and scientific accuracy.


soft science fiction

After hard science fiction, attributed to Peter Nicholls.

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on the nature of its speculative societies or that employs pseudoscience.


workscreen

(rare, sometimes science fiction) A computer display that one can work at.


Selenite

From Selene (“the Moon”) + -ite. From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “goddess of the Moon”).

uder

My first impression was of some clumsy quadruped with lowered head. Then I perceived it was the slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs of a Selenite, with his head depressed between his shoulders.

1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Selenite’s Face”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 136:

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


Selenite

a Selenite colony

"Come, Diana [a dog]," said he; "come, my girl! thou whose destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; […] thou who art rushing into interplanetary space, and wilt perhaps be the Eve of all Selenite dogs! come, Diana, come here."

1873, Jules Verne, “Round the Moon: A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. Chapter III. Their Place of Shelter.”, in Louis Mercier [i.e., Lewis Page Mercier], Eleanor E[lizabeth] King, transl., From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. […], New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 170:

(science fiction) Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians/Selenites).


Earthship

Compound of Earth + ship. In the architectural sense, coined by American architect Michael E. Reynolds.

coinage

(science fiction) A spaceship originating from or belonging to Earth.


plasteel

Grunting, he heaved to his feet and looked out the lucilite port at the surface of Saturn. Cold and rugged it was, lashed by furious gales that tore with futile fury at the plasteel dome which Elmer Dunk called home.

1942 March, Gord Peck, “He Was Poor...But He Was Honest”, in Censored, volume 1, number 3, St. Andrew's College, Aurora, page 7:

The passage, two paces deep, opened through a heavy door into a square office lighted by golden glowglobes. Jessica passed her hand across the door as she entered, was startled to identify plasteel.

(science fiction) A fictional durable substance.


battlesuit

(science fiction) A technologically enhanced suit worn in battle for protection, camouflage, etc.


Titanean

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Titan (the Saturnian moon)


outworlder

It is a thing no outworlder may know except those very few who have been involved.

1967, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):

He speaks with the outworlder tongue!
What else were you expecting from a male, sister Dykstra?

1995, Among Friends And Enemies, Part 3: The Magical Mystery Tour (Gen13), volume 2, number 3 (comic), page 19:

Let each government make sure that rich and poor alike, dirtborn and outworlder, Terran and Variant, all have equal access to the outernet and its resources.

1998, Celia S. Friedman, This Alien Shore:

(science fiction, fantasy) One who comes from another planet, or from a society so culturally foreign as to be a different world.


pantropy

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”, literally “turning”), coined by American science-fiction writer James Blish and first attested in 1952.

(science fiction) The process of adapting humans through genetic and/or cybernetic means to thrive in environments otherwise inhospitable to them, such as outer space, the deep sea or other planets.


scoutship

(science fiction) A spaceship that carries out reconnaissance.


stardrive

From star + drive.
From the ability of the drive to propel the vehicle to the stars.

Stardrive section of a Galaxy-class starship.
Memory Alpha, Secondary hull, 2005

Atlantis, utilizing its star drive, was able to travel from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Pegasus Galaxy, a distance of between 3.26 and 3.5 million light years.
GateWorld, Stardrive

Scorpio is damaged in a collision course with a asteroid and the Scorpio crew require a star-drive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run all Federation pursuit ships
IMDB, "Stardrive"

Nebula moved back to her main console and looked to the stardrive unit's monitors immediately discovering the grim truth.
iUniverse, "The Godmaker Legacy: The Derelict: A Novel", Kirkland D. Casey, 2003, pp.171, →ISBN

The StarDrive was discovered on the planet Centaurus
NESFA Hymnal, "Reminder", B. Coulson, 1976, pp.12

no star drive yet devised could produce that kind of acceleration
"Orbitsville Departure", B. Shaw, 1983, pp.190

Every race they met on their way through the Core had a 'star drive based on a different theory.
"Light", M.J. Harrison, 2002, pp.135

The voice of the Organic Computer began counting down the seconds until the star drive was cut
Amazing Stories, "We All Died At Breakaway Stations", B.C. Meredith, 1969

Man's horizons exploded to the rims of the universe with the perfection of the star drive
Astounding SF, "Blood's Rover", C. Oliver, 1952

They'll know the principles of the star drive in a few more generations
Astounding SF, "Genius", P. Anderson, 1948

We will have to wait until they move off. I should be able to calculate their direction and get a rough idea of the distance from the power signature when they activate their Stardrive
Aliens, "Guardian Generations", Clive Osborne Rapley, 2010, pp.67, →ISBN

When they engaged the Star Drive to escape, the hunter mine had closed to ninety metres, inside the Star Drive's field of influence.
Trafford Publishing, "Origin: The Heritage Files - Phase One", Roger Hydes, 2008, →ISBN

—or century: humans can endure star-drive!
Arc Manor, "The Colors of Space", Marion Zimmer Bradley, 2008, pp.97, →ISBN

He was also beginning to lose faith that the recently recovered and bizarrely incoherent Ehrehin was really capable of delivering a working singularity- powered stardrive prototype any time in the foreseeable future.
Simon and Schuster, "The Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do", Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, 2007, pp.434, →ISBN

Whatever kind of creatures they were, and whatever the disaster that threatened their planet, they had a star-drive to take them out of the solar system to another star.
Prologue Books, "Scavengers in Space", Alan E. Nourse, 2013, →ISBN

What could be gleaned from study of the landing craft was as far from the stardrive as their first steam engine had been from that spaceship itself; there was no chance of premature contact with other races.
"The Far Side of Evil", Sylvia Louise Engdahl, 1989, pp.158

(science fiction) a device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances


bioreading

(science fiction) A measurement of the presence and properties of a living thing.


holorecording

(science fiction) A holographic recording.


gentlebeing

From gentle + being, modelled on gentleman.

Ladies and gentlebeings, let me introduce to you Doctor N'looma and her assistant L'raan, the Yularians who, along with other medical staff, were instrumental in giving me a new lease on life!

2016, James R. Lane, Last Dance of the Phoenix, page 204:

(science fiction, usually in the plural, sometimes humorous) Polite term of address for any sentient being, human or otherwise.


starfighter

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(science fiction) A fictional type of spacecraft that is intended to be used like a fighter plane in outer space.


starcruiser

(science fiction) A spaceship analogous to a cruiser.


campo de força

pt-noun

campo de força m (plural campos de força)

(science fiction) force field (a field of energy that prevents passage)


capacitor de fluxo

capacitor de fluxo m (plural capacitores de fluxo)

(science fiction) flux capacitor (device that grants time travel)


antiacceleration

en-adj

antiacceleration (comparative more antiacceleration, superlative most antiacceleration)

more antiacceleration (comparative)
most antiacceleration (superlative)

(science fiction) Preventing or counteracting acceleration.


fleshling

(fantasy, science fiction, derogatory) A creature made of flesh; a human being.


hypertravel

(science fiction) travel through hyperspace


holovision

They'll be materializing before them in the special reception chambers, transmitted by way of the wires and beams, and reproduced by the three-dimensional holovision system in all their natural solidity.

1968, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life, Collins, page 4:

But pass up the sci-fi stuff for now, like for instance the holovision technology that's put TV and radio in museums.

1973 October, James Tiptree, Jr., “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, New Dimensions 3, page 81:

Flinging open the control booth door, he sprinted around the carpeted perimeter behind the array of holovision cameras.

2003 February 1, William Walling, Triage, Virtualbookworm.com, →ISBN:

(science fiction) holographic television


dirtside

Many spacers hated leaving port – any port – and so spent as much time dirtside as possible. One evening, all three of these factors lined up in my favor. Kelly and John were dirtside, keeping an eye on Boris and the auctioneer, and Captain Gus was topside, supervising loading of supplies. Our new crewmembers were still dirtside as well, partying before shipping out.

(science fiction) On the surface of a planet or moon (i.e. not in space)


dirtsider

He really hadn't been in space before. You can always tell a dirtsider by the twinkle in their eyes at the idea of seeing their planet from above.

1998, Jerry Oltion, Where Sea Meets Sky, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23:

So you tell me, Senyor Parrige, how many habitats would be willing to take on their maximum possible population load in the form of half-starved, uneducated, indigent, disease-ridden dirtsiders who know nothing of habitat life and have no skills that are of much use in space?

2001, Roger MacBride Allen, The Depths of Time, Random House, →ISBN, page 378:

As a dirtsider, the idea of dying in the cold of space terrified him, though he'd never admit it to his space-loving mate.

2010, Shayla Kersten, Angel Moon, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 52:

(science fiction, often derogatory) Someone who lives on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to in space.


Galactic

The sepoy spoke again. The meaning of the words finally penetrated. Oddly, Agayan was surprised more by the fact of those words than their actual content. He had not realized that Gha could speak Galactic beyond a few crude and simple phrases.

2001, Eric Flint, “Carthago Delenda Est”, in Foreign Legions, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 253:

universal language
universal language#Noun

(science fiction, fantasy) Denoting the name of a universal language spoken throughout a galaxy in various works.


antigraviton

(chiefly science fiction) The hypothetical antipartner of a graviton.


photobank

No selenium, no photo-cell banks. No photobanks – well, death by slow broiling is one of the more unpleasant ways of being done in.

(science fiction) A bank of photoelectric cells.


hiperespaço

(science fiction) hyperspace (space that makes faster-than-light travel possible)


ornithoid

(science fiction, fantasy) Any bird-like creature.


presser beam

We'll have them in three days, and it ought to be fairly simple to dope out the opposite of a tractor, too—a pusher or presser beam.

1931 September, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 6, page 544:

(science fiction) Alternative form of pressor beam


repulsor beam

From repulse + -or and beam, a beam that repulses.

Installed at the center of mass and set to repulsor-beam, this one would be able to move the entire planetoid from its orbit.

1958 November, Poul Anderson, “A Bicycle Built for Brew”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 62, number 3:

Hooked my model tractor beam into ship's power. Now it's a repulsor beam too. Want in?

1987, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “The Naked Now”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton):

I always wondered how cloud city in ESB stay afloat and does not fall? Is it some kind of repulsor beam, or what?

1995 July 15, Umut Nurkan, “How does cloud city float?”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars (Usenet), message-ID <1995Jul14.190422.22468@hobbes.kzoo.edu>:

No, that indicates a cloaked Romulan vessel with a repulsor beam.

2008 February 20, Iarnrod, “Re: WTC Towers: The case for controlled demolition”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):

(science fiction) A device that emits an energy beam capable of pushing away other objects.


pressor beam

From press + -or and beam. Analogous to "presser beam", a beam that presses, as the inverse of tractor beam. Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1931 in his novel Spacehounds of IPC, first serialized in Amazing Stories.

coin

Onward and upward flashed the gigantic duplex cone, its entire whirling mass laced and latticed together—into one mammoth unit by green tractor beams and red pressors.

1931 September, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 6, page 560:

By the way they're braced, there are tractor beams and pressor beams and—there are vacuum tubes that have grids but apparently work with cold cathodes.

1945 June, Murray Leinster, “The Ethical Equations”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 35, number 4, page 122:

A pressor beam lashed out, and invisible hammer blow of repulsion, five times the strength of the enemy tractor.

1956 September, Poul Anderson, “Margin of Profit”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 58, number 1, page 58:

(science fiction) A device that generates a beam that repels other objects; or the beam itself.


andy

From android + -y, coined by Philip K. Dick in his 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

Well, no intelligence test would trap such an andy. But then, intelligence tests hadn't trapped an andy in years, not since the primordial, crude varieties of the '70s.

1968, Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?:

1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting as William Shatner), TekWar
These damn andies can pass for humans, as can most of the more expensive andies these days.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick


fafiate

From FAFIA (“forced away from it all”) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

af

After she got that job she became a fafiate.

(dated, fandom slang, science fiction) A science fiction fan who has become inactive in the fandom community due to other obligations.


neofan

COMING NEXT ISH: A department devoted to the BNF of tomorrow. 'Twill be the neofan of today who is the Tucker or Laney of tomorrow. So QUANDRY, the BNZ of tomorrow, will bring you biografies^([sic]) of lesser known fen.

1950 October, Lee Hoffman, “Chaos”, in Quandry, archived from the original on 2011-06-07, page 5:

I heard a couple of neofans boasting that they were going to have breakfast with him!

1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun:

Huzzah! Hopefully we'll get some fans, neo-fans and even fanlings to join us.

2005 June, Ruth Davidson, “President's Message”, in National Fantasy Fan, volume 5, number 2, page 4:

For a while there, if three fans were swapping apazines, it’s a good bet that I was one of them. Not that I set a record for number of apas. Bruce Pelz, Robert Lichtman and a few other fans had made “omniapan-ism” fashionable among impressionable neofen like me. Bruce was not only in a lot of groups, but it seemed like he was Official Editor of half of them.

2006 May 14, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon, volume 1, number 4:

(dated, fandom slang, science fiction) A newcomer to science fiction; a fan who is extremely new and inexperienced with the genre; a beginner.


Belter

You noticed a habit of mine once. I never make gestures. All Belters have that trait. It's because on a small mining ship you could hit something waving your arms around.

1966 February, Larry Niven, “The Warriors”, in If, volume 16, number 2 (#99 overall), page 152:

Earth and Mars have been stepping on the necks of the Belters out here for over 100 years and I didn't want to be the boot.

2015 December 22, Remembering the Cant (The Expanse), season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Holden (Steven Strait):

(science fiction) An inhabitant of an asteroid belt, especially that between Mars and Jupiter.


Earthie

"Earthgirl?" the guard repeated. "She didn't look like an Earthie."

1947 October, Frederik Pohl, “Donovan Had a Dream”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 27:

The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago.

1963 May, John Jakes, “Underfollow”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 24, number 5 (#144 overall), page 66:

(science fiction, informal, often derogatory) An inhabitant of the Earth.


Earthgirl

You have given me an idea, Earthgirl, and it is one that I am afraid you will live to regret.

1939 February, Harold Kerton Wells, “Moon of Mad Atavism”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 13, number 1, page 35:

(usually science fiction) A young female inhabitant of Earth.


Earthperson

en-noun

Earthperson (plural Earthpersons or Earthpeople)

Earthpersons (plural)
Earthpeople (plural)

The Venusians, unlike other planetary races, were almost like Earthpeople. There was only one notable difference—they had feathers on their heads instead of hair.

1953 May, Eando Binder, “Interplanetary Tenements”, in Captain Marvel Adventures, volume 24, number 144, page (inside front cover):

And beyond that, the most important equipment of all: the manufacturing units that processed the Earthpeople's food.

1956, Philip Kindred Dick, The World Jones Made, page 198:

My last act as an earthperson, she says, was t' snatch off my landlawd's glasses and punch and punch 'im in the nose.

1974, Donald Newlove, The Drunks, page 140:

"That was an ingenious idea, Earthperson," it said slowly. "There is now a beneficent atmosphere surrounding my pressure envelope, which will enable me to repair the torn fabric and survive until Illensan assistance arrives. Thank you."

1983, James White, Sector General, page 24:

It was Tarna's first demonstration of Earthpersons—or rather Earth robots—in action, an the villagers were hugely impressed.

1986, Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth, page 81:

(usually science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Earth.


holodisk

(science fiction) A holographic disk used as a storage medium.


repulsor

(science fiction) A device used to deflect or repel other objects, or for flight stability.


champ de force

fr-noun

champ de force m (plural champs de force)

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datapad

She produced a small datapad, tapped out a rapid sequence on the keys, and shoved it in front of Ma'adrys. “Does it look like this?”
Ma'adrys drew back from the datapad until Geordi leaned over her shoulder to whisper a few words of reassurance

(science fiction) A small handheld device used to gather, send, or process data.


medkit

(usually science fiction, video games) A small bag or case containing medical supplies


broodling

(science fiction) a member of a brood in science fiction


graser

Acronym of Gamma Ray Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

acronym

The Russians are working on the graser. One B. V. Chirkov has published a theoretical study in the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. He thinks a very pure crystal, "pumped" with a powerful source of radiation (such a "hard" X rays), much as a ruby crystal is pumped with high-intensity light in one form of laser, could be stimulated to emit coherent gamma rays—pulses of high-energy radiation perfectly in step.

1964 February, Wallace Cloud, “Science newsfront”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 184, number 2, →ISSN, page 29:

Not lasers. Grasers. Gamma Ray Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

1974 October, Harlan Ellison, “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 47, number 4, page 59:

electromagnetic radiation
electromagnetic radiation

(physics, science fiction) A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation in the gamma ray wavelength by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems.


sabre de luz

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


moon rune

Compound of moon + rune. Possibly influenced by moon-letters, a secret writing system in J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit.

Pull the lever to turn the Moon Rune bridge around so you can get the Moon Rune.

2000, Mel Odom, Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm official strategy guide

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see moon, rune.

(science fiction and fantasy) A runestone or similar object associated with the moon.

This knowledge, then, was to come – as the Moon rune, or rune of the night, signified – in the form of dreams.

2011, David Bilsborough, The Wanderer's Tale, page 73:

(science fiction and fantasy) A rune or other writing indicating or associated with the moon.


vidtape

1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting as William Shatner), TekWar
She was standing in the center of their living room, wearing the same pale green fakesilk dress she'd had on in the vidtape. She looked fine now, though, not weary or ill.


lajinmurha

lajinmurha (nominative singular)
lajinmurhat (nominative plural)
lajinmurha (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhat (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhan (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhat (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhan (genitive singular)
lajinmurhien (genitive plural)
lajinmurhain (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaa (partitive singular)
lajinmurhia (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassa (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissa (inessive plural)
lajinmurhasta (elative singular)
lajinmurhista (elative plural)
lajinmurhaan (illative singular)
lajinmurhiin (illative plural)
lajinmurhalla (adessive singular)
lajinmurhilla (adessive plural)
lajinmurhalta (ablative singular)
lajinmurhilta (ablative plural)
lajinmurhalle (allative singular)
lajinmurhille (allative plural)
lajinmurhana (essive singular)
lajinmurhina (essive plural)
lajinmurhaksi (singular translative)
lajinmurhiksi (plural translative)
lajinmurhatta (abessive singular)
lajinmurhitta (abessive plural)
lajinmurhin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
lajinmurhani (nominative singular)
lajinmurhani (nominative plural)
lajinmurhani (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhani (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhani (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhani (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhani (genitive singular)
lajinmurhieni (genitive plural)
lajinmurhaini (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaani (partitive singular)
lajinmurhiani (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassani (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissani (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastani (elative singular)
lajinmurhistani (elative plural)
lajinmurhaani (illative singular)
lajinmurhiini (illative plural)
lajinmurhallani (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillani (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltani (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltani (ablative plural)
lajinmurhalleni (allative singular)
lajinmurhilleni (allative plural)
lajinmurhanani (essive singular)
lajinmurhinani (essive plural)
lajinmurhakseni (singular translative)
lajinmurhikseni (plural translative)
lajinmurhattani (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittani (abessive plural)
lajinmurhineni (comitative plural)
lajinmurhasi (nominative singular)
lajinmurhasi (nominative plural)
lajinmurhasi (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhasi (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhasi (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhasi (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhasi (genitive singular)
lajinmurhiesi (genitive plural)
lajinmurhaisi (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaasi (partitive singular)
lajinmurhiasi (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassasi (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissasi (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastasi (elative singular)
lajinmurhistasi (elative plural)
lajinmurhaasi (illative singular)
lajinmurhiisi (illative plural)
lajinmurhallasi (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillasi (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltasi (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltasi (ablative plural)
lajinmurhallesi (allative singular)
lajinmurhillesi (allative plural)
lajinmurhanasi (essive singular)
lajinmurhinasi (essive plural)
lajinmurhaksesi (singular translative)
lajinmurhiksesi (plural translative)
lajinmurhattasi (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittasi (abessive plural)
lajinmurhinesi (comitative plural)
lajinmurhamme (nominative singular)
lajinmurhamme (nominative plural)
lajinmurhamme (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhamme (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhamme (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhamme (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhamme (genitive singular)
lajinmurhiemme (genitive plural)
lajinmurhaimme (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaamme (partitive singular)
lajinmurhiamme (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassamme (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissamme (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastamme (elative singular)
lajinmurhistamme (elative plural)
lajinmurhaamme (illative singular)
lajinmurhiimme (illative plural)
lajinmurhallamme (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillamme (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltamme (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltamme (ablative plural)
lajinmurhallemme (allative singular)
lajinmurhillemme (allative plural)
lajinmurhanamme (essive singular)
lajinmurhinamme (essive plural)
lajinmurhaksemme (singular translative)
lajinmurhiksemme (plural translative)
lajinmurhattamme (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittamme (abessive plural)
lajinmurhinemme (comitative plural)
lajinmurhanne (nominative singular)
lajinmurhanne (nominative plural)
lajinmurhanne (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhanne (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhanne (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhanne (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhanne (genitive singular)
lajinmurhienne (genitive plural)
lajinmurhainne (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaanne (partitive singular)
lajinmurhianne (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassanne (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissanne (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastanne (elative singular)
lajinmurhistanne (elative plural)
lajinmurhaanne (illative singular)
lajinmurhiinne (illative plural)
lajinmurhallanne (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillanne (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltanne (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltanne (ablative plural)
lajinmurhallenne (allative singular)
lajinmurhillenne (allative plural)
lajinmurhananne (essive singular)
lajinmurhinanne (essive plural)
lajinmurhaksenne (singular translative)
lajinmurhiksenne (plural translative)
lajinmurhattanne (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittanne (abessive plural)
lajinmurhinenne (comitative plural)
lajinmurhansa (nominative singular)
lajinmurhansa (nominative plural)
lajinmurhansa (accusative nominative singular)
lajinmurhansa (accusative nominative plural)
lajinmurhansa (accusative genitive singular)
lajinmurhansa (accusative genitive plural)
lajinmurhansa (genitive singular)
lajinmurhiensa (genitive plural)
lajinmurhainsa (genitive plural rare)
lajinmurhaansa (partitive singular)
lajinmurhiaan (partitive plural)
lajinmurhiansa (partitive plural)
lajinmurhassaan (inessive singular)
lajinmurhassansa (inessive singular)
lajinmurhissaan (inessive plural)
lajinmurhissansa (inessive plural)
lajinmurhastaan (elative singular)
lajinmurhastansa (elative singular)
lajinmurhistaan (elative plural)
lajinmurhistansa (elative plural)
lajinmurhaansa (illative singular)
lajinmurhiinsa (illative plural)
lajinmurhallaan (adessive singular)
lajinmurhallansa (adessive singular)
lajinmurhillaan (adessive plural)
lajinmurhillansa (adessive plural)
lajinmurhaltaan (ablative singular)
lajinmurhaltansa (ablative singular)
lajinmurhiltaan (ablative plural)
lajinmurhiltansa (ablative plural)
lajinmurhalleen (allative singular)
lajinmurhallensa (allative singular)
lajinmurhilleen (allative plural)
lajinmurhillensa (allative plural)
lajinmurhanaan (essive singular)
lajinmurhanansa (essive singular)
lajinmurhinaan (essive plural)
lajinmurhinansa (essive plural)
lajinmurhakseen (singular translative)
lajinmurhaksensa (singular translative)
lajinmurhikseen (plural translative)
lajinmurhiksensa (plural translative)
lajinmurhattaan (abessive singular)
lajinmurhattansa (abessive singular)
lajinmurhittaan (abessive plural)
lajinmurhittansa (abessive plural)
lajinmurhineen (comitative plural)
lajinmurhinensa (comitative plural)

lajin (“of a species”) + murha (“murder”); formed analogously to the term kansanmurha (“genocide”)

compound

(science fiction) xenocide (genocide of an entire alien species)


robot revolution

en-noun

robot revolution (plural robot revolutions)

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(science fiction) A violent uprising by sapient robots, aimed at overthrowing human government.


visão de raios-X

(science fiction) X-ray vision (ability to see through solid matter)


terraformação

(science fiction) terraforming (process of modifying a planet’s environment so it becomes similar to Earth’s)


viagem no tempo

pt-noun

viagem no tempo f (plural viagens no tempo)

(chiefly science fiction) time travel (hypothetical or fictional travel to the past or future)


robocop

From robo- + cop, after the film RoboCop (1987).

1990, Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.). National Conference, Michael Gorman, Convergence: Proceedings of the Second National Conference...
As the World Wars were succeeded by the Korean War, which melded into the Vietnam War, science fiction pictured numerous dystopias controlled by means of ever-watchful computer and robocops.

Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

(science fiction) A cyborg police officer.


小綠人

ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄌㄩˋ ㄖㄣˊ

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ly⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ly⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

(science fiction or humorous) little green man (space alien)


painstick

(science fiction) A weapon consisting of a baton capable of delivering a jolt of pain on contact with the body.


blastor

Well it was for me that, in obedience to Hul Jok's imperative command, I was holding my Blastor pointing ahead of me; for as I blundered full upon the monstrosity it upheaved its ugly bulk—how I do not know, for I saw no legs nor did it have wings—to one edge and would have flopped down upon me, but instinctively I slid forward the catch on the tiny Blastor, and the foul thing vanished—save for a few fragments of its edges—smitten into nothingness by the vibration hurled forth from that powerful little disintegrator.

1925 April, Nictzin Dyalhis, “When the Green Star Waned”, in Weird Tales, volume 5, number 4, page 6:

(science fiction) Alternative form of blaster (“hand weapon”)


galactography

Either galactic + -graphy or blend of galactic + geography. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1950 in the final installment of the novella "...And Now You Don't" (collected as part of Second Foundation).

coin

‘Galactography,’ said the mayor, ‘is our greatest enemy. Our admirals make no secret of our almost hopeless, strategic position.’

1950 January, Isaac Asimov, “...And Now You Don't”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 44, number 5, page 113:

Well, one knows that. I mean, one studies galactography and gets to recognize the stars with inhabited planets in the sky at night.

1960, John Brunner, Slavers of Space, Ace Books, page 22:

(science fiction) The science of charting and mapping galaxies.


galactographer

From galactography (“science of charting and mapping galaxies”) + -er. Coined by American science fiction author Edmond Hamilton in his 1965 novelette The Shores of Infinity.

suffix

Early galactographers had defined it as that part of the galaxy which lay between the eastern and southern kingdoms, and the edge of the island-universe.

1965 April, Edmond Hamilton, “The Shores of Infinity”, in Amazing Stories, volume 39, number 4, page 24:

It seems like these 'cats might be left over from wetter days. I found a brief study of Rhyl done by a couple galactographers, and they reported this was once a cooler planet.

1978, Robert Edward Vardeman, The Sandcats of Rhyl, →ISBN:

Some galactographers have estimated that there may be up to ten thousand inhabited planets that aren't listed at all.

1982, Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge, →ISBN, page 99:

(science fiction) A specialist in galactography.


galactographic

en-adj

galactographic (comparative more galactographic, superlative most galactographic)

more galactographic (comparative)
most galactographic (superlative)

From galactography (“science of charting and mapping galaxies”) + -ic. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1950 in the final installment of the novella "...And Now You Don't" (collected as part of Second Foundation).

suffix

Nor were the galactographic verities of the situation lost upon Stettin.

1950 January, Isaac Asimov, “...And Now You Don't”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 44, number 5, page 115:

Is there some place here where we can make some galactographic computations?

1969 May, Edmond Hamilton, “The Horror from the Magellanic”, in Amazing Stories, volume 43, number 1, page 11:

This new planet didn't have a name. It could just about support life, but not a lot, and as opposed to Beta Caprisis—where entirely too many interesting things had happened for it to be inhabited—this planet simply wasn't interesting enough. It had a galactographic classification, in a desultory sort of way, but for various reasons you‟re not going to get it out of me.

1999, Dave Stone, The Mary-Sue Extrusion, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Pertaining to galactography; to the charting and mapping galaxies.


proto-science fiction

(science fiction) Any of various early literature that contained elements that would develop into science fiction


nanopotenziato

it-adj

nanopotenziato (feminine nanopotenziata, masculine plural nanopotenziati, feminine plural nanopotenziate)

nanopotenziata (feminine)
nanopotenziati (masculine plural)
nanopotenziate (feminine plural)

(science fiction) nanotechnologically enhanced


vulcaniano

vulcaniano (feminine vulcaniana, masculine plural vulcaniani, feminine plural vulcaniane)

vulcaniana (feminine)
vulcaniani (masculine plural)
vulcaniane (feminine plural)

(science fiction) Vulcan (of, from or relating to Vulcan (fictional planet))


vulcaniano

(science fiction) Vulcan (native or inhabitant of Vulcan) (male or of unspecified gender)


vulcaniano

es-adj

vulcaniano (feminine vulcaniana, masculine plural vulcanianos, feminine plural vulcanianas)

vulcaniana (feminine)
vulcanianos (masculine plural)
vulcanianas (feminine plural)


electromancer

(science fiction) Someone who practices the divination of electricity.


Niven ring

Named after American science fiction writer Larry Niven, who wrote the famous science-fiction novel Ringworld that popularized the idea.

named-after

(science fiction) A solid ring type Dyson ring around a star, capable of containing an interior surface that could be terraformed into a habitat with an inner ring of occultation panels to provide a day-night cycle.


virch

en-noun

virch (countable and uncountable, plural virches)

(He won't use virch goggles; their simulated environments cut him off too thoroughly from me, and that scares him.)

1995, Michael Bishop, “Cri de Coeur”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection, page 428:

"Yeah. Why vid, anyway? Why not virch?"

2002, Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth, page 108:

Knowing Noah will be content in his virch for as long as he is left undisturbed, she begins mapping new ideas […]

2015, James Bradley, Clade, unnumbered page:

(informal, science fiction) virtual reality


xenozoology

(science fiction) The branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial animals.

Xenozoologie

xenology dealing with extraterrestrial cultures


xenopaleontology

Text excerpts from: An Introduction to Xenopaleontology: The Study of Ancient Extraterrestrial Life. Interplanetary Council Public Document #3664. 18, Mulburn, Peters, et. al., 2 May 2389.

1981 June, Joel Hagen, “Xenopaleontology”, in Heavy Metal, volume 5, number 3, page 42:

J. Q. R. Forster, professor of xenopaleontology and xenoarchaeology at King's College, London, was engrossed in a leather-bound volume from a shelf of 19th-century classics when Blake and the commander entered the library.

1990, Paul Preuss, The Medusa Encounter, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 122:

I would vehemently hope that in some far-future day a real, honest-to-goodness human geology/xenopaleontology crew is sent to Mars and that it sets down in that same area and seriously examines some of these things up close and^([sic]) great detail.

2004 March 9, Herb Schaltegger, “Re: "Avoiding the 'F word' on Mars -- F*SSIL" -- Oberg”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):

When it had left the system, the tool-users were in the middle of a spirited attempt to wipe themselves out, which led the frigate to one hypothesis that the biological material the freighter was carrying had been some sort of xenopalaeontology expedition to preserve the species; […]

2014, Gavin Deas, Empires: Extraction, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 26:

(rare, science fiction) The study of past extraterrestrial life forms.


aerocarro

/ɐˌɛ.ɾɔˈka.ʁu/

(chiefly science fiction) aircar (car capable of flight)


pozemšťan

pozemšťan (nominative singular)
pozemšťané (nominative plural)
pozemšťana (genitive singular)
pozemšťanů (genitive plural)
pozemšťanovi (dative singular)
pozemšťanu (dative singular)
pozemšťanům (dative plural)
pozemšťana (accusative singular)
pozemšťany (accusative plural)
pozemšťane (singular vocative)
pozemšťané (plural vocative)
pozemšťanovi (locative singular)
pozemšťanu (locative singular)
pozemšťanech (locative plural)
pozemšťanem (instrumental singular)
pozemšťany (instrumental plural)


allobiologico

it-adj

allobiologico (feminine allobiologica, masculine plural allobiologici, feminine plural allobiologiche)

allobiologica (feminine)
allobiologici (masculine plural)
allobiologiche (feminine plural)

(biology, science fiction) exobiological


Dyson swarm

Named after American theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson

named-after

(science fiction) A system of movable, independent satellites that as a whole compose a Dyson sphere.


bioship

(science fiction) A spaceship that is partially or wholly composed of biological material.


star lifting

(science fiction) A hypothetical process wherein a portion of a star's mass is removed, generally to serve as an energy source.


von Neumann probe

en-noun

von Neumann probe (plural von Neumann probes)

(science fiction) A von Neumann machine, or machine capable of self-replication, that is sent on interstellar voyages to investigate or terraform.


Dyson tree

genetically engineered
genetically engineered

(science fiction) A hypothetical genetically engineered plant that could grow in a comet.


sleeper ship

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

(science fiction) A spaceship, all or some of whose passengers are in suspended animation.


mindlock

(fantasy, science fiction) A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.


hyperchess

(science fiction) A multidimensional form of the game of chess.


doppel

A clipping of doppelganger; however, the words are not synonyms.

(science fiction) An identical copy of a person (such as a clone, virtual reality representation, etc.).


antimutant

en-adj

antimutant (comparative more antimutant, superlative most antimutant)

more antimutant (comparative)
most antimutant (superlative)


enttarnen

de-verb

enttarnen (weak, third-person singular present enttarnt, past tense enttarnte, past participle enttarnt, auxiliary haben)

enttarnt (present singular third-person)
enttarnte (past)
enttarnt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
enttarnen (infinitive)
enttarnend (participle present)
enttarnt (participle past)
enttarne (first-person indicative present singular)
enttarnen (first-person indicative plural present)
enttarne (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
enttarnen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
enttarnst (indicative present second-person singular)
enttarnt (indicative plural present second-person)
enttarnest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
enttarnet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
enttarnt (indicative present singular third-person)
enttarnen (indicative plural present third-person)
enttarne (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
enttarnen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
enttarnte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
enttarnten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
enttarnte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
enttarnten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
enttarntest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
enttarntet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
enttarntest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
enttarntet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
enttarnte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
enttarnten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
enttarnte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
enttarnten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
enttarn (imperative second-person singular)
enttarne (imperative second-person singular)
enttarnt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe enttarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben enttarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe enttarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben enttarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast enttarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt enttarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest enttarnt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet enttarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat enttarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben enttarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe enttarnt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben enttarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte enttarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten enttarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte enttarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten enttarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest enttarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet enttarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest enttarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet enttarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte enttarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten enttarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte enttarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten enttarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enttarnen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde enttarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden enttarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest enttarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet enttarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde enttarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden enttarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde enttarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden enttarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde enttarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden enttarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst enttarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet enttarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest enttarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet enttarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird enttarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden enttarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde enttarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden enttarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
enttarnt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde enttarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden enttarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest enttarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet enttarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde enttarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden enttarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde enttarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden enttarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde enttarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden enttarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst enttarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet enttarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest enttarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet enttarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird enttarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden enttarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde enttarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden enttarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)


holoviewer

(science fiction) A device that can project a holographic image to an observer.


autocook

Jack picked up two lunch kits from the counter and tossed them into the autocook.

2014, Collin R. Skocik, Voyage into the Unknown 6: The Mind Machine, page 231:

With a flick of a needle-like finger he activated the autocook and selected "random" from the menu. He wanted to be surprised, and with over one thousand meals stored in its internal memory there was always a good chance […]

2018, Neil Davies, A World Of Assassins, page 119:

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


Altairian

en-adj

Altairian (comparative more Altairian, superlative most Altairian)

more Altairian (comparative)
most Altairian (superlative)

The book is a guide book, a travel book. […] It is of course that invaluable companion for all those who want to see the marvels of the known Universe for less than thirty Altairian dollars a day—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

1980 October, Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Of or relating to the star Altair.


Altairian

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Altair.


Afropunk

Coordinate term: Afrofuturism

There’s a lot going on in this novel, but Thompson expertly juggles all his disparate elements – alien encounter, cyberpunk-biopunk-Afropunk thriller, zombie-shocker, an off-kilter love story and an atmospheric portrait of a futuristic Nigeria.

2018 October 4, Adam Roberts, “Rosewater by Tade Thompson review – a stellar SF debut”, in The Guardian:

(science fiction) Afrocentric science fiction.


computerette

One tiny cassette holds 8000 2000-mile routes, any of which can be exposed at will. It is not hard to imagine the ACD — and its associated computerette — becoming a splended "optional extra" in the vacationer's family car.

1968, Popular Mechanics, volume 129, number 3, page 115:

Highly robotic for her time, Baby Luna came with her moon landing module, crashball, computerette, star maps, space suit, dragon robe and other clothes.

2011, Fred Holmes, Heroes of the Transition, page 8:

My bijou computerette had no truck with floppy disks, so an Internet café would not suffice.

2012, Miranda Innes, Getting to Manana, page 175:

What I should really do, of course, is use a Personal Digital Assistant; one of those tiny hand-held computerette thingies […]

(rare, chiefly science fiction) A small computer.


skin job

(science-fiction, slang) A robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin.