- noun
- A universal language translator for speech.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘translate’ and Automat (machine).
- Source
- Changing Planes
- noun plural
- Life that wells up in unexpected ways whenever darkness falls on the city.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘nocturnal’ with the Latin suffix -alia (nominalization/intensification).
- Source
- Borne
- noun
- A number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘reciprocal’, ‘reverse’, and ‘exclusion’.
- Source
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- noun
- A telephone able to place calls across time and space.
- Origin
- Derived from tempus (time) and phone (sound).
- Source
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- noun
- A device that holds the area within static, relative to the universe without.
- Source
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- noun informal
- A really amazingly together guy.
- Source
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- noun
- Pattern generation by deductive and inductive reasoning.
- Source
- Stand on Zanzibar
- 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