- 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’.
- Source
- Great Work of Time
- noun
- A device used to prepare a time traveller’s cellular structure and brain patterns for survival in their selected time period.
- Origin
- Derived from atavus (ancestor) and khrónos (time).
- Source
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- 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
- A unit of time.
- Origin
- Possibly an abbreviation of ‘corrected’ (for time dilation) and ‘second’.
- Source
- The Island
- noun
- An augmented projection of the current locale.
- Origin
- Spime, an object that can be tracked in space and time.
- Source
- The Quantum Thief
- noun
- A parallel timeline.
- Origin
- Abbreviated from ‘alternate reality’.
- Source
- 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”).
- Source
- The Shape of My Name
- adjective
- Able to distort time.
- Origin
- Formed from khrónos (time) and the suffix -pathic (abnormality).
- Source
- The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
- noun
- A device enabling travel to parallel time lines.
- Origin
- Derived from pará (nearby) and khrónos (time).
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- Eutopia
- noun
- The intrepid breed of men that go down into the uncharted seas of time gas below Earth’s crust.
- Origin
- Derived from terra (ground) and nautēs (traveller).
- Source
- The Night That All Time Broke Out