terraform

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth. transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

terraforms present,singular,third-person terraforming participle,present terraformed participle,past terraformed past

词源

From Terra (“planet Earth”) + -form (“having the form of”). Coined by American science fiction author Jack Williamson in 1942 as part of his novella Collision Orbit.
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