- noun
- A miniature video camera with the ability to hover in the air.
- Origin
- Derived from vespa (wasp).
- Source
- Embassytown
- noun
- An instrument that can interweave, differentiate, coordinate or completely counteract vibrations of any source or nature whatsoever!
- Source
- The Vibrometer
- noun
- A video broadcaster.
- Origin
- Formed from visio (vision) and ‘broadcast’.
- Source
- Second Foundation
- noun
- A device able to freeze a person in a cylinder of liquid nitrogen to preserve the body in case of catastrophe.
- Origin
- Formed from vitri (glass) and ‘fax’ – fac simile (“make like”).
- Source
- Fiasco
- noun
- A hardware/software device that synthesises speech.
- Origin
- Formed from vox (voice) and the suffix ‘-ware’.
- Source
- Embassytown
- noun informal
- A person without cybernetic brain implants.
- Source
- The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice
- noun plural
- Rogue nanomachines.
- Source
- The Fractal Prince
- noun informal
- A person fitted with an electronic implant to stimulate the pleasure centres of the brain.
- Source
- The Ringworld Engineers
- noun
- A word, which when spoken inveigles its way into the mind of the speaker and manifests itself in his flesh.
- Origin
- Named for the parasitic manifestation caused by the word.
- Source
- Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia