- noun
- A device purported to offer instantaneous viewing of any subject’s thoughts.
- Source
- Great Breakthroughs in Darkness
- noun
- A carnivore.
- Source
- The Star Diaries: The Eighth Voyage
- noun
- A reconstruction of a deceased person of historic note, created from their corpus of documented works.
- Origin
- Coined with allusion to reincarnation.
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- Accelerando
- verb
- Recreational use of the anti-cancer drug Reboot™ for the purpose of experiencing its notable gender-reassignment side effect.
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- Changes
- adjective
- Short form of the phrase “down the gravity well” – i.e. located on the surface of a planet.
- adverb
- From orbit to the surface of a planet.
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- Accelerando
- noun
- An encapsulated message sent over a digital communications network.
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- The Girl Who Was Plugged In
- verb
- To commit evolutionary self-deselection (suicide).
- Origin
- Charles Darwin; evolution of species by natural selection.
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- Accelerando
- noun informal
- A street drug that stimulates rapid cognition, having novotrophin-B and MDMA as ingredients.
- Origin
- Phonetic transcription of “sense-a-wonder”.
- Source
- Accelerando
- noun
- A distributed cloud of software agents that augments the computational power of the human brain.
- Source
- Accelerando