- 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
- A two-dimensional video recording – contrast with trivid.
- Origin
- Presumed to be coined after the full potential image area of a lens.
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- A Borrowed Man
- 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
- An augmented projection of the current locale.
- Origin
- Spime, an object that can be tracked in space and time.
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- The Quantum Thief
- noun
- A parallel timeline.
- Origin
- Abbreviated from ‘alternate reality’.
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- Unholy Land
- noun
- A vessel that allows the occupant to travel through time.
- Origin
- Derived from aná (upon), khrónos (time), and pedes (“one who walks”).
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- The Shape of My Name
- adjective
- Having or appearing to have length, breadth, and depth.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘tri-dimensional’.
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- Embassytown
- verb
- A method of faster-than-light travel that involves compressing space into two dimensions.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘plane’ (a flat surface) and ‘form’.
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- The Game of Rat and Dragon
- noun
- A device enabling travel to parallel time lines.
- Origin
- Derived from pará (nearby) and khrónos (time).
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- Eutopia
- 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 method of creating a dimensional rift that releases astronomical amounts of energy into realspace from the energy grid between universes.
- Source
- Consider Phlebas