- noun
- A tower of superstressed concrete three kilometres high; home to 800,000 people.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘urban monad’.
- Source
- The World Inside
- noun
- A device for composing songs entirely by mechanical means.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘verse’ with the French suffix -ificateur (to realise an action).
- Source
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- 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