Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. faster-than-light; having a speed greater than light.
Etymologies
- super- + luminal (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term superluminal is unfortunate, and to be honest I cringe a bit when ever I hear the word.”
“Monitoring of this star by both amateurs and professionals for signs of a high velocity or 'superluminal'-expanding nebulalight-echo would seem to be in order.”
Unprecedented Eruption Catches Astronomers By Surprise | Universe Today
“This model, called the superluminal model of pulsars, was described by Singleton and colleague Andrea Schmidt as solving many unanswered issues about pulsars.”
“I will second that so called superluminal expansion, such as in inflationary cosmology, does not mean things travelling faster than light.”
“VNM: I had come across the word "superluminal" in one of Julian May's novels -- I don't think I'd run across it before -- and she was cool with my using it for a title, so I did.”
“Such apparent "superluminal" motion has been seen before in high-speed jets of material squirted out by some black holes.”
“superluminal" motion has been seen before in high-speed jets of material squirted out by some black holes.”
“I say, the berm of a superluminal river in space, a Kransikov tube, a la The January Dancer.”
“In Vonda N. McIntyre's Superluminal, a woman has to undergo bodily augmentation and alteration in order to cope with the pressures of being a starship pilot, e.g. the ability to go superluminal.”
“People move about through superluminal flight combined with suspended animation, making travel a non-issue.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘superluminal’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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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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Star Trek and Star Wars
Ridiculous American cheese, but entertaining all the same.
navigational shields, antiprotons, deflector, superluminal, spock, vulcan, warp speed, warp, captain, united earth, lieutenant, commander and 51 more...
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color, light & sight
albedo, chromatography, chromatic, tone, penumbra, superluminal, diaphanous, iridescent, amethyst, opalescent, celadon, lapis and 38 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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useful words!
rare words that others will still understand
imbroglio, superluminal, chatoyant, shibboleth, contretemps, miasmic, quotidian, hierophant, histrionic, orgiastic, erubescent, cachinnate and 12 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for superluminal.
michaelt42 The superluminal neutrinos that puzzled scientists when first reported last year (2011) seem likely to be demoted to the status of phantoms. A faulty connection in the complex apparatus used for the measurements is now thought to be the cause of the problematic result, as was reported in the UK press today. Feb 23, 2012