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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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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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I lugged the last sack of kadik-germ out of the tent, fitted it into its niche in the sledge-load, and said, “If I had called the ship that night in Mishnory—the night you told me to—the night I was arrested....But Obsle had my ansible; still has it, I suppose.”

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