terraformとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹəfɔː(ɹ)m/

動詞

terraform (三人称単数 現在形 terraforms, 現在分詞 terraforming, 過去形および過去分詞形 terraformed)

1. (chiefly science fiction) To transform the atmosphere (または biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth.
   • 1942 July, Jack Williamson, “Collision Orbit”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 29, number 5, page 82:

     He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun.

同意語

• Earthscape

派生語

• terraformer

参照

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2023), “terraform v.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.