- noun
- A ring-shaped artificial habitat encircling a star.
- Source
- Ringworld
- noun informal
- A mentally retarded person.
- Source
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- noun
- A recording or broadcast of the sensorium.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘simulated stimulation’.
- Source
- Neuromancer
- noun
- The language of Oceania, devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc.
- Source
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- noun
- A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system.
- Source
- Neuromancer
- noun
- A person with psychic powers.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘extra-sensory perception’.
- Source
- The Demolished Man
- verb
- To understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed.
- Source
- Stranger in a Strange Land