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Academic Coronese Anglic-based Cyborg academic language used at the University of Corona and in many affiliated habitats and biospheres.
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AcademionInformation Age Artificial Island Polity, later relocated in Orbital Habitat.
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accelerationThe rate of change of velocity.
Acheulian
technology of, pertaining to, or typical of a Lower Paleolithic culture of the middle Pleistocene Epoch, characterized by large hand axes and cleavers made by the soft hammer technique.
acidophileAn organism with a pH optimum for growth at, or below, pH 3. A type of extremophile.
Ackermann GoldHyperturing corporate AI from Nova Terra, after copies of Erikk Holsta merging with em did not solve the problem of Holsta's eccentric behaviour, stated that e did not think it had any responsibility for correcting self-destructive behaviours in so trivial minds as virtuals; later emigrated to Aleph Absolute.
acosmismExtreme mystical-philosophical position that states that the physical universe (both r/l and virch) is ultimately unreal, and that only the Absolute is real.
accretion diskwhirling disk of hot gas and dust around a large compact object such as a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, usually material that has been thrown off one star and is being drawn into the companion object.
active galaxyGalaxy whose centre emits an unusually high amount of energy, possibly as the result of a supermassive black hole. Typical signatures of active galaxies are variable brightness, broad emission lines, and strong radio emission.
active materialsThe inclusion of nanobots in a paint or surface coating. These collect travel or flight information, fix cracks and detect and annihilate dirt.
actualysThe dissolution of reality caused by inability to distinguish virtual from real. Usually caused by heavy use of virches, augmented reality, drugs or nanoprojections.
Adapawe Clan
adaptationany alteration in the structure or function of an organism by natural selection, that helps it survive in its environment.
Adaptive Mimetic MaterialsA piece of matter designed to gather specific biometric traits of a being and store them for later recovery or broadcast/narrowcast to a dedicated recorder.
The most common is the adaptive mimetic material handle, which samples both palm print, finger prints, bioelectrical signatures, and sweat chemistry amongst bionts. With careful design, such materials can gather similar abiometric data from borgs and vecs, mapping the specific frequencies released by actuators, relative actuator strength, precise beam lengths, etc. This is often used along the lines of a cheap security measure, much like the locks offered on suitcases today. adaptive radiationthe diversification of a morphotype or species as it adapts to different ecological niches.
Adara Trade TreatyPolity in the middle sphere, centred roughly on the bright giant star Adara (Epsilon Canis Majoris). Formed in 6120, breaking with the previous Sophic league structure. It was a revolution solely among the alphas, leaving the vast majority of inhabitants totally indifferent.
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Adaran Extension"Will to power" Adaran subversive missionary sect seeking not to strictly convert other systems but rather to make them tools for the happiness of the believers in evolutionary hedonism.
AdenineA nucleotide; one of the two purines bases in terragen organic life. In DNA it is paired with thymine, to make the base pair A-T; in RNA paired with uracil to make the pair A-U.
adbombsubliminal memebot broadcast devices, scattered them around a designated area, they release a message into the brain of everyone in the area, usually an advertisement. Banned throughout much of the civilized galaxy, they are widely used in market state free zones such as the NoCoZo, and out towards the periphery where the reach of the noetic and other big ai states is not very strong.
AdorateSophic enclave in the Perseus Arm, fallen to the Amalgamation in 8761.
Advaita VedantaPopular monistic acosmic non-dualist mystical philosophy of Old Earth Hinduism
Advection of Pure DrylinesMirrored Owl swarm-nets of note, an inhabitant of Dragon in the Penglai system during the 4000's. E introduced neotaoist ideas into its cloud art (up until then the Owls had been fairly uninterested in the local philosophies), creating a series of highly influential artworks that both created a long era of neotaoist-inspired atmospheric art and interested the non-Owls in the practise.
advertisingA way of increasing demand by aggressively bringing the product to the attention of consumers.
Advertising may be liminal, subliminal, open, subversive, memetic, intelligent, ai, or any of a million other possible variants. Advertising is banned or strictly controlled in some polities and empires, selective in others, unregulated in others again, and any variation in-between. Always a good source of extra income, especially in the NoCoZo, the Terran Federation, and various Free Zones, advertising is often considered tacky and tasteless in the Solar Dominion, an unnecessary waste of orderliness in the Negentropic Alliance, demeaning to sentients in the Utopia Sphere, and too materialistic in the Sophic League.
AdvocacyThe study and dissemination of advanced knowledge, usually for memetic purposes.
Advocates are interested in and highly knowledgeable about many theoretical or applied scientific, toposophic, memetic and noetic fields of learning. Their knowledge includes a wide sweep of history, terminology, current controversies, technological applications, and the various tools of the trade, although they will generally also specialize in a favourite field of expertise. They are almost always augmented with extensive computronium implants, wetware and/or cyberware, and are of superbright or even S1 intelligence or above. Advocates can easily converse both with lay-sentients and specialists on many scientific subjects, and can explain complex theories in a comprehensible manner. Often they serve as heralds for higher toposophic entities, or may accompany Sephirotic ships or seraiph. Each Solar Dominion missionary ship for example has at least one Advocate among the crew.