Minkowskan English
Dictionary
- Answards: The direction opposing the standard orbital motion. Clockwise.
- Down: The direction along the torso from the head to the abdomen of the speaker. The direction of decreasing inclination.
- Ground Pounder: A welldweller clumsy in zero-gravity.
- Island: A colony with an artificial superstructure (i.e. not an asteroid colony)
- Lopez: A large asteroid.
- North: One pole of a magnet. The direction of increasing inclination.
- Saz: A spacesuit. More strictly a space activity suit, so rarely used for suits for children.
- Spinbound: In spin-gravity. More generally, people or things originating from spin-gravity societies.
- Spinner: Person who lives on a spin-gravity colony.
- Spinwards: The direction of standard orbital motion. Anticlockwise.
- South: The direction of decreasing inclination.
- Starwards: The direction of increasing radius, especially in space.
- Tub: Unpowered spacecraft.
- Up: The direction along the torso from the abdomen to the head of the speaker. The direction of increasing inclination.
- Wellbound: In a gravity well. More generally, people or things originating from planetary societies.
- Welldweller: Person who lives in gravity.
- Wellwards: The direction of decreasing radius, especially in space.