- noun
- The investigation of the properties of Realities (more correctly, Reality-fields) intrinsically unknowable by and from our own, but whose general principles could be hazarded at.
- Origin
- Contraction of metamathematics, a branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature.
- Source
- Excession
- noun informal
- The area of space between the Fringe and the highly civilized worlds around Old Earth.
- Origin
- Derived from ‘jumbled’ in reference to the effects of the Double War on these planet’s civilizations.
- Source
- Dying Of The Light
- noun plural
- Marginally different strands of reality, caused by sequences of events where various different things happen with subatomic particles throughout the universe.
- Source
- Oracle
- noun
- A device that holds the area within static, relative to the universe without.
- Source
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- 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 unit of time.
- Origin
- Possibly an abbreviation of ‘corrected’ (for time dilation) and ‘second’.
- Source
- The Island
- noun
- An instrument that can interweave, differentiate, coordinate or completely counteract vibrations of any source or nature whatsoever!
- Source
- The Vibrometer
- adjective
- Able to distort time.
- Origin
- Formed from khrónos (time) and the suffix -pathic (abnormality).
- Source
- The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal