- noun informal
- Abbreviation of ‘mise-en-crime technical investigator’.
- Origin
- Pun on mise en scène
- Source
- The City & The City
- interjection
- Contraction of je suis d’accord.
- Origin
- Popularised by French Canadian hockey players in the twenty-first century.
- Source
- The Shockwave Rider
- noun
- Death of an uploaded mind without a backup.
- Source
- The Fractal Prince
- noun
- A device for transmitting the sensorium.
- Origin
- Phonetic transcription of “be me”.
- Source
- The Fractal Prince
- noun plural
- Rogue nanomachines.
- Source
- The Fractal Prince
- noun
- A unit of time.
- Origin
- Possibly an abbreviation of ‘corrected’ (for time dilation) and ‘second’.
- Source
- The Island