subetherics

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   in science fiction, devices or systems that communicate through a subether medium, usually faster than light

   The stranded explorers could not call another ship because their subetherics were out of range.

A science-fiction formation from subether + -ics. Subether combines sub-, 'below or beneath,' with ether, the historically imagined medium filling space; the plural or collective ending -ics names the associated communication technology.

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