- noun informal
- Abbreviation of ‘mise-en-crime technical investigator’.
- Origin
- Pun on mise en scène
- Source
- The City & The City
- noun
- A grey brick slightly larger than a fist; the basic building block of many Supra City megastructures.
- Origin
- Presumed to be coined after the creator of Minecraft, Markus “Notch” Persson.
- Source
- The Causal Angel
- noun
- The malady referred to by laymen as the Five-Day Reversible Death.
- Origin
- Formed from pénte (five), thánatos (death), and lūna (the moon).
- Source
- Dimension of Miracles
- exclamation
- An oath sworn in the name of humanity’s home star.
- Source
- Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion
- interjection
- Contraction of je suis d’accord.
- Origin
- Popularised by French Canadian hockey players in the twenty-first century.
- Source
- The Shockwave Rider
- verb
- To devalue or invalidate something.
- Origin
- Possibly a contraction of ‘de-validate’.
- Source
- The Shockwave Rider
- noun
- Death of an uploaded mind without a backup.
- Source
- The Fractal Prince
- noun
- A device for transmitting the sensorium.
- Origin
- Phonetic transcription of “be me”.
- Source
- The Fractal Prince
- noun plural
- Rogue nanomachines.
- Source
- The Fractal Prince
- noun
- A subterranean organism resembling a botanical rhizome, known to produce valuable pearl-like stones.
- Origin
- Derived from aureus (golden) and lac (milk).
- Source
- Prospect
- noun
- A unit of time.
- Origin
- Possibly an abbreviation of ‘corrected’ (for time dilation) and ‘second’.
- Source
- The Island
- noun
- Artificial outdoor lighting with an effect resembling starlight.
- Origin
- Astrum (star).
- Source
- The White Pony