| 释义 |
worldlet, n. Chiefly Science Fiction.|ˈwɜːldlɪt|
[Cf. world n. + -let.]
A little world; a planetoid.
1926Spectator 11 Sept. 375/1 So in turn we visit the asteroids, that belt of tiny worldlets flinging round the sun. 1937O. Stapledon Star Maker ix. 206 As the aeons advanced, hundreds of thousands of worldlets were constructed. 1968S. R. Delaney Nova (1971) 21 He finally got up a party to land on Deimos and explored the tiny moon as only a worldlet can be explored. 1993A. C. Clarke Hammer of God 108 Not much larger than a family automobile, it could..allow them to make a fairly detailed examination of the virgin worldlet. |