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Terms vs Handwavium - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and handwavium

is that terms is while handwavium is (informal|fiction) any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties.

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    handwavium

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  • (informal, fiction) Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties.
  • * 2008 , "Jacey Bedford", Handwavium'' (on newsgroup ''rec.arts.sf.composition )
    • My handwavium was an invented mineral, but - reading up - what about platinum? Could I substitute platinum for handwavium?
  • * 2008 , Alexander Jablokov, The Boarder'', in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , volume 114, number 3 (March)
    • He puzzled over the spacecraft and their handwavium drives. "The thousand and one nights of Scheherazade, told by an engineering student who failed his graduation exams," was his literary judgment.
  • * 2011 , Imogen Howson, Blood of the Volcano (page 167)
    • She writes romantic fantasy and science fiction, and makes liberal use of the substance known as handwavium .