- noun
- A training process in which the student is medicated into a trance-like state that results in perfect recall.
- Origin
- Derived from the acronym EPT (‘education for particular tasks’).
- Source
- Stand on Zanzibar
- noun
- A child.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘progeny’.
- Source
- Stand on Zanzibar
- noun informal
- An an urbmon resident who commits non-social acts.
- Origin
- “They flip; they thwart.”
- Source
- The World Inside
- noun
- A tower of superstressed concrete three kilometres high; home to 800,000 people.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘urban monad’.
- Source
- The World Inside
- noun
- An entity or phenomenon which harvests and consumes information, particularly information about itself.
- Origin
- Meme, a unit of cultural information transmitted from one mind to another.
- Source
- There Is No Antimemetics Division
- noun
- An archaeologist, patronizingly rendered into today’s speech by some of the more learned folk.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A mount that allows a telescope to accurately follow the motion of the night sky.
- Origin
- Formed from ástron (a celestial body) and trópos (a turn).
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A creature that contracts its body when one end is in fresh water and the other in salt water, bred for use as a pump or motor.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- adjective
- Crudely physical; not taking into account the topography of Cleavage.
- Origin
- Formed from gross (without deductions) and topical (related to a particular place).
- Source
- The City & The City
- noun
- The alternate identity of a place co-located in the Cleaved cities of Besel and Ul Qoma.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘topography’ and ‘doppelganger’.
- Source
- The City & The City
- noun informal
- Abbreviation of ‘mise-en-crime technical investigator’.
- Origin
- Pun on mise en scène
- Source
- The City & The City