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- noun science fiction A
hypothetical substance withanti-gravity effects.
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Examples
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The science that makes Edwardian space travel possible (it's all down to "cavorite", a substance of the professor's invention that blocks the effects of gravity) may be preposterous, but it's still carefully explained.
The Guardian World News Tim Dowling 2010
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Wells, at least, was coming from two separate traditions - one of lunar fiction dating back centuries that sometimes saw flocks of doves used as a mode of transport, and one of 19th Century social commentary - and used cavorite to address both.
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The cavorite in the watches never loses its energy.
The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010
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The cavorite in the watches never loses its energy.
The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010
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The cavorite in the watches never loses its energy.
The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010
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And from the opening page of Aetheric Mechanics, there are tropes a-plenty on view: the aforementioned flying machines and giant robots, but also flying ships held aloft by “cavorite”.
Aetheric Mechanics, Warren Ellis & Gianluca Pagliarani « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008
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When Cavor lectured Bedford on how their cavorite-coated spaceship might be piloted using roller blinds,
The Guardian World News Tim Dowling 2010
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Cavor sets off a heap of cavorite to destroy them, which explains why there is no atmosphere - or ant people - on the moon today.
The Guardian World News Tim Dowling 2010
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Cavor airtight iron diving bell-looking thingie out in his greenhouse and while Bedford has mercenary ideas about cavorite (he wants to coat the soles of boots with it), Cavor has higher plans ...
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Cavor has invented a substance, cavorite, which screens out gravity the same way lead screens out x-rays.
frogapplause commented on the word cavorite
This can't be my favorite word... because I don't know what it means.
November 22, 2008
whichbe commented on the word cavorite
H.G. Wells' "gravity-blocking substance" used in many of his novels.
I think it should also mean one's favorite thing found inside of caves.
Or maybe it should mean one's favorite vice, what makes them "cave in" most.
November 22, 2008