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cavorite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ca-vorite
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hypothetical substance with anti-gravity effects.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Cavor + -ite. Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1901 in The First Men in the Moon. It was named after the fictional Dr. Cavor. The initial use was capitalized, but later authors borrowing the concept sometimes changed it to lowercase. In the first use, the metal acted as a gravity shield; after the metal was cooled, objects contained within it were no longer subject to gravity. Some later uses, e.g., Alan Moore's, imagine the substance to simply have a negative gravitational mass.

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Questions

What does cavorite mean?
A hypothetical substance with anti-gravity effects.
Where does cavorite come from?
From Cavor + -ite. Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1901 in The First Men in the Moon. It was named after the fictional Dr. Cavor. The initial use was capitalized, but later authors borrowing the concept sometimes changed it to lowercase. In the first use, the metal acted as a gravity shield; after the metal was cooled, objects contained within it were no longer subject to gravity. Some later uses, e.g., Alan Moore's, imagine the substance to simply have a negative gravitational mass.

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