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Glossary
— E
- ee-oh
- O.K. (language=Kyotsu-go)
[picked up from Jarmusch's Mystery Train]
- Ehangwen
- Arthur's Court or Hall, according to the original Celtic legend (language=unknown)
- Eighter
- just short of three years on Gë,
slightly longer than two Yeibichai
years (language=Yeibichai/slang)
- einheimischer Arbeiter
- native workers (language=Deutsch), referring to the people of Ganj
Dareh from Gastarbeiter;
"Hauptarbeiter" would've fit better (more parallel structure) with
"Gastarbeiter," but contemporary Deutsch doesn't work that way
- elátkozott
- damned (language=Magyar) [see cue/www=MTA
SZTAKI, the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences]
- Ellinika'
- language aka Greek
- Em-Deh
- names of Cyrillic letters that are initials of Mirnaya
Direvnya (language=Rooski)
- empathize
- to participate in or vicariously experience another's feelings, volutions,
or ideas [converted Encyclopædia Britannica's definition of empathy
into a verb] (language=American); contrast with sympathize
- endoware
- the internal workings of any "black-box" device that could be
software, hardware, firmware, or whatever-ware they come up with a
hundred-fifty years in the future (language=Yeibichai/technical
jargon); see also infraware
and policyware
- enfant gâté
- a spoiled child (language=Français) [Roget's Pocket Thesaurus]
- enfants perdus
- lost children, a forlorn hope (language=Français) [Roget's Pocket
Thesaurus]
- enfant terrible
- a terrible child, that is, one who makes disconcerting remarks (language=Français)
[Roget's Pocket Thesaurus]
- En-ki
- Yeibichai's secondary sun,
a red dwarf, En-ki revolves around Anu
once every 3.12 Yeibichai days (each day, it goes a third around), so people
can actually see it move, that is, if they could look straight at Anu, which
they can't unprotected.
How big is En-ki? Sol is 926 times the volume of Jupiter, which is
somewhat smaller than what it takes to flame into a star. If En-ki were even
twice Jupiter's size, it wouldn't make a difference to the inhabitants, so I
made it a quarter the size of Anu, so it has some influence on the sunlight
that falls. Most people won't be able to perceive the difference in colors
(Phoebe can, though), though they might be able to tell the change in
intensity. If they need to talk about how En-ki relates to their perspective
on Anu, they use the clock analogy, as perceived from above Anu's north
pole, with noon meaning En-ki's directly on the other side of Anu, so —
assuming En-ki orbits clockwise:
 | 2 o'clock = En-ki emerging as a crescent on the right
 | 3 o'clock = En-ki fully emerged & distinct on the right
 | 6 o'clock = En-ki directly in front of Anu
 | 8 o'clock = En-ki fading on the left
 | 9 o'clock = En-ki distinct on the left
 | 10 o'clock = En-ki just a crescent on the left
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En-ki moves just slightly less 4 o'clocks each Yeibichai day, but not enough
less to make a difference.
En-lil
Yeibichai's third sun, En-lil
revolves around Anu once every 18
years or so, a small, reddish wanderer that accounts for and perturbs Yeibichai's
highly elliptical orbit, so that it changes its azimuth around Anu. Every 37
years, En-ki approaches as Yeibichai reaches aphelion, causing what
residents call Red Winter.
entremets
in Webster, dishes (as vegetables or savories) served in addition to the
main course of a meal; in Joy of Cooking, the sweets served as the
last course of a formal meal (language=Français; pronunciation=ahn-TREY-mahz)
epox-crete
Yeibichai building
material made from a aggregate of varied-grained local materials and Schirra
cement, mixed with a resin-based bonding agent that accelerates hydration
(curing) by 130 times (2k seconds) versus three Gë
days for plain concrete); see also concrete
(language=Yeibichai/building
materials)
epox-plaster
Yeibichai building
material made from aggregate of small-grained local materials and
resin-based bonding agent encased in smooth, white coating (language=Yeibichai/building
materials)
exabit
10 to the 18th bits, a trillion megabits (language=American)
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