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- From false + dawn, translating Arabic صبح كاذب (SubH kaaDib). (Wiktionary)
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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Times of Day
A cycle we should know by name
dawn, sunrise, daw, sparrow-fart, moonrise, daybreak, crepuscular, false dawn, greking, night, dusk, evenfall and 17 more...
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skipvia's Words
syzygy, egg, lossy, catharsis, impuissance, truckle, obsequious, sequoia, sonot khazoot, alizarin, sepulchre, klister and 434 more...
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All Day and All of the Night
Descriptions of nights and days
astronomical dawn, astronomical dusk, astronomical twil..., nautical dawn, nautical dusk, nautical twilight, civil dawn, civil dusk, civil twilight, dawn, dusk, twilight and 16 more...
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skipvia This article from Space.com explains it much better than I could.
See zodiacal light, a beautiful phrase. Oct 24, 2007