terraformとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɛɹəfɔː(ɹ)m/

動詞

terraform (third-person singular simple present terraforms, present participle terraforming, simple past and past participle terraformed)

1. (chiefly science fiction) To transform the atmosphere (or 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 (2001–2025), “terraform v.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.