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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, neurones.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to neurons

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  • “Living electronically, where the effects come before the causes, is a rather graphic and vivid way of explaining why distant goals and objectives are somewhat meaningless to "neuronic" man.”

    The End of the Work Ethic

  • “Was the drowned world itself, and the mysterious quest for the south which had possessed Hardman, no more than an impulse to suicide, an unconscious acceptance of the logic of his own devolutionary descent, the ultimate neuronic synthesis of the archaeopsychic zero?”

    Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World

  • “He had given notice of it in his New Worlds editorial, where he cited time as ‘one of the perspectives of the personality’ and it is this subjective sense of time that shapes The Drowned World, as archaeopsychic time, neuronic time and a ‘descent into deep time’.”

    Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction

  • “As such, The Drought does not present a single, Ballardian version of inner space like the neuronic memories and archaeopsychic time of The Drowned World.”

    Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction

  • “I felt a deep burning pain in my side as the ‘droid’s neuronic disrupter hit its mark.”

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

  • “If our experience of our lives and our days is composed of connections between neurons—and I think this is what brain scientists tell us—then we need to avoid creating hugely strong connections along neuronic pathways that define us writers as failures.”

    Paths of Discontent

  • “One neuronic pathway goes down, and the other parallel pathways pick up the processing load.”

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact

  • “Peering over the ridge of his neuronic rifle, he longed for one of the nameless ones to make itself known so that he could personally put a charge into its trunk-like body and watch while it slowly asphyxiated, its neural system paralyzed, its organs fibrillating uncontrollably.”

    Sliding Scales

  • “Where had shock rifles and neuronic pistols come from?”

    Drowning World

  • “This one was flanked by a pair of warriors armed not with spears and hunting bows but with neuronic rifles.”

    Drowning World

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