Terraformer vs Terraformed - What's the difference?
terraformer | terraformed |
(science fiction) A machine that has the capability to terraform.
(science fiction) A person who terraforms.
English agent nouns
(terraform)
(science fiction) To transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1942
, date = July
, first = Jack
, last = Williamson
, authorlink = Jack Williamson
, magazine =
, title = Collision Orbit
, volume = 29
, issue = 5
, page = 82
, passage = 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.
}}
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