- verb
- The dissolution, dissociation, and total dissipation of a monarch.
- Origin
- Formed from ‘monarch’ and lúsis (loosening).
- Source
- The Cyberiad
- noun informal
- A low-status male living on Earth, not in the employ of the United Orbital Soviet.
- See also
- Dirtgirl
- Source
- Hardwired
- noun
- A creature that contracts its body when one end is in fresh water and the other in salt water, bred for use as a pump or motor.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A device allowing the operator to compose music automatically.
- Origin
- Derived from metron (measure).
- Source
- We
- verb informal
- To travel in a spaceship that is nearly as fast as light.
- Source
- The Shobies’ Story
- noun
- A bio-synthetic being spawned from a mother-machine.
- Origin
- Naqal (imitation).
- Source
- Oblivion: A Journey
- noun
- An airborne swarm of self-organising inanimate matter.
- Origin
- Nekrós (the dead).
- Source
- The Invincible
- noun
- Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A type of artificial habitat composed of multiple twisting tubes, complexly intertwined.
- Source
- Matter