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ansible

[an-suh-buhl]

noun

  1. (in science fiction) a device for instantaneous communication, or other purposes, across cosmic distances.

    With the ansible on the fritz, it would take eleven years for their message to reach the admiral, who was waging war in another galaxy.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ansible1

Shortening of answerable; coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her novel Rocannon's World (1966)
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After the Ansible Foundation Training course, you'll be able to manage a cloud region, create playbooks, and then some.

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“Not unless they’d heard from me. They’d consult with the Stabiles on Ollul and Hain, by ansible. Most likely they’d decide to try again—send down another person as Envoy. The Second Envoy often finds things easier than the First. He has less explaining to do, and people are likelier to believe him...”

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He had seen my ship, after all, the little lander that had brought me down on planet; he had free access along with anyone else to the engineers’ reports on the ship and the ansible.

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I could show them the ansible, but it didn’t make a very convincing Alien Artifact, being so incomprehensible to fit in with hoax as well as with reality.

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The old Law of Cultural Embargo stood against the importation of analyzable, imitable artifacts at this stage, and so I had nothing with me except the ship and ansible, my box of pictures, the indubitable peculiarity of my body, and the unprovable singularity of my mind.

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