- adjective
- Of a child: born after the waning years of the On-Off sun.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘out of phase’.
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- A Deepness in the Sky
- noun
- A virtual reality scenario experienced via direct interface with the brain.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘transmit’ and ‘dream’.
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- The Algebraist
- noun informal
- A person who has been made into a cognitive computer.
- Source
- A Deepness in the Sky
- noun
- A carnivore.
- Source
- The Star Diaries: The Eighth Voyage
- noun
- Seasonal vegetation that grows into irregular temporary housing.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘adapt’ and ‘plant’.
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- Central Station
- 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
- noun
- A person who opposes the social order of the Combine.
- Source
- Half-Life 2
- noun
- A person who makes recordings of their sensorium.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘memory’ and ‘recordist’.
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- Central Station
- noun
- A written document stored in electronic form.
- Source
- Light
- verb
- Recreational use of the anti-cancer drug Reboot™ for the purpose of experiencing its notable gender-reassignment side effect.
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