<span class="searchmatch">Niven</span>, who wrote the famous science-fiction novel Ringworld that popularized the idea. <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> <span class="searchmatch">rings</span>) (science fiction) A solid <span class="searchmatch">ring</span>...
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article on: <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> Wikipedia From the Scottish Gaelic variant of Nevin. <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">Nivens</span>) A surname from Scottish Gaelic. <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> According to...
innerving present participle and gerund of innerve <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> <span class="searchmatch">ring</span>...
of a disk with a star located in a hole running through its axis, and massive enough to have its own atmosphere megastructure Dyson sphere <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> <span class="searchmatch">ring</span>...
mancude-<span class="searchmatch">ring</span> system mangagement <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> marriage <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> Mickey Mouse <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> mood <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> mooring <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> napkin <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> navel <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> near-<span class="searchmatch">ring</span> neck <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> Newton's <span class="searchmatch">rings</span> <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> ring...
From <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> + world, introduced by Larry <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> in the novel Ringworld (1970). ringworld (plural ringworlds) (science fiction) An artificial megastructure...
Dyson shell (system of satellites): Dyson swarm megastructure <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span> <span class="searchmatch">ring</span>, Dyson <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> Alderson disc / Alderson disk ^ Freeman J. Dyson (3 June 1960) “Search...
houses the extra high-voltage <span class="searchmatch">ring</span> main switchgear, the transformer and the medium voltage switchgear. 1970, Larry <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span>, Ringworld, page 118: Yet every...
type that the modification had to be abandoned. 1970 October, Larry <span class="searchmatch">Niven</span>, “The <span class="searchmatch">Ring</span> Floor”, in Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published January...