glassite
See also: Glassite
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editglassite (uncountable)
- (science fiction) A fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.
- 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 135:
- One of those cyclopean cylinders could, conceivably, miss the guiding beam and crash half a mile from its expected landing point—through the glassite roof of the immense waiting room perhaps—so that only a thin organic vapor and some powdered phosphates would be left behind to mark the passing of a thousand men.
References
edit- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “glassite, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.