Rit
- pronoun
- The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a robot.
- Source
- The Child of Clay
Chlomach
- noun
- An external artificial organ capable of photosynthesis, attached to the human body via umbilical cord.
- Origin
- Derived from khlōrós (green) and māchina (machine).
- Source
- Sleeping Beauties
Psychocybernetics
- noun
- A scientific field concerned with digitizing the personality of an individual.
- Source
- The Beast Has Died
Adai
- noun
- Artificial intelligence created by applying a software morphogenesis model to human genetic data.
- Origin
- Acronym of “autonomously developing artificial intelligence”.
- Source
- Singleton
Microhistories
- noun plural
- Marginally different strands of reality, caused by sequences of events where various different things happen with subatomic particles throughout the universe.
- Source
- Oracle
Solsake
- exclamation
- An oath sworn in the name of humanity’s home star.
- Source
- Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion
Corsec
- noun
- A unit of time.
- Origin
- Possibly an abbreviation of ‘corrected’ (for time dilation) and ‘second’.
- Source
- The Island
Astralight
- noun
- Artificial outdoor lighting with an effect resembling starlight.
- Origin
- Astrum (star).
- Source
- The White Pony
Calcker
- noun informal
- A computer.
- Origin
- Corruption of ‘calculator’.
- Source
- Wish Upon a Star
Plock
- verb informal
- To make redundant, particularly by technological means.
- Source
- The Panda Coin
Jesi
- noun plural
- Clones produced from a sample of blood purported to be that of Jesus Christ.
- Source
- What Would Sam Spade Do?
Wormword
- 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