- noun
- The structure of actuality; orthogonal futures and pasts that fluoresce from the universe as it is, and from those into others, and others, always at right angles to the stream of time.
- Origin
- Back-formation from ‘orthogonal’.
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- Great Work of Time
- noun
- The science and technology of developing Artificial Intelligence.
- Origin
- Formed from ‘memory’ and ‘electronics’.
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- The Regression Test
- noun
- A scientific field concerned with digitizing the personality of an individual.
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- The Beast Has Died
- noun plural
- Marginally different strands of reality, caused by sequences of events where various different things happen with subatomic particles throughout the universe.
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- Oracle
- noun
- A number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘reciprocal’, ‘reverse’, and ‘exclusion’.
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- Life, the Universe and Everything
- noun informal
- An ethnologist of high intelligence life forms.
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- Rocannon’s World
- noun
- Temporal slippage induced by chrownons; in other words: timely travel.
- Origin
- Professor Gladys Chrowdingler, discoverer of the chrownon.
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- Automated Alice
- noun
- A branch of mathematics dealing with the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli.
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- Foundation