terraforming

See also: Terraforming

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹəfɔːmɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: ter‧ra‧form‧ing
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ

Noun

terraforming (uncountable)

1. The hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, etc. to make it similar to those of Earth and thus suitable for human life.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Almarcrux planetary description:

     Almarcrux's abundant water and relatively mild temperature and gravity have placed it on the short list of terraforming candidate worlds. However, there is significant opposition from eco-ethics groups, who assert that Almarcrux's primitive methanotrophic bacteria may be a precursor to a full-fledged native ecology.

Synonyms

• planetary engineering
• terraformation

Hypernyms

• forming

Hyponyms

• paraterraforming

Coordinate terms

• geoengineering
• pantropy

Translations

planetary engineering

• Arabic: إِعَادَة تَأْهِيل f (ʔiʕādat taʔhīl), تِيرَافُورْمِينْغ m (teraforming), تِيرَافُورْمِينْغ m (tīrāfurminḡ)
• Azerbaijani: terraformalaşdırılma
• Bengali: পৃথিবীকরণ (prithibikron)
• Catalan: ecopoesi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地球化 (dìqiúhuà)

• Czech: terraformace f
• Danish: terraformning
• Dutch: terravorming
• Esperanto: teroformigo
• Finnish: maankaltaistaminen (fi), terraformointi
• French: terraformation (fr) f, terraforming (fr) m, terraformage (fr) m
• German: Terraforming (de) n
• Greek: γεωπλασία f (geoplasía), γεωμόρφωση f (geomórfosi), γαιοπλασία (gaioplasía), γαιοδιαμόρφωση (gaiodiamórfosi), γαιοσχηματισμός (gaioschimatismós)
• Hebrew: הארצה (he) f (ha'aratsa)
• Hungarian: terraformálás
• Icelandic: jarðbreyting, jarðsköpun
• Italian: terraformazione f
• Japanese: テラフォーミング (terafōmingu), 地球化 (ちきゅうか, chikyūka)
• Korean: 테라포밍 (terapoming), 지구화(地球化) (jiguhwa)
• Lithuanian: teraformavimas m
• Macedonian: земјообликување n (zemjooblikuvanje), тераформирање n (teraformiranje)
• Norwegian: terraforming

  Bokmål: terraforming

• Persian: زمینی‌سازی (zamini-sâzi)
• Polish: terraformowanie n
• Portuguese: terraformação f
• Romanian: terraformare
• Russian: терраформи́рование (ru) n (terraformírovanije), террафо́рминг m (tɛrrafórming)
• Serbo-Croatian: тераформирање n, teraformiranje n
• Spanish: terraformación (es) f
• Swedish: terraformning, terraformering
• Turkish: Dünyalaştırma (tr)
• Ukrainian: тераформува́ння n (teraformuvánnja)
• Vietnamese: địa khai hóa

Further reading

• terraforming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

terraforming

1. present participle and gerund of terraform

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English terraforming.

Noun

terraforming n (uncountable)

1. terraforming

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	terraforming	terraformingul
genitive-dative	terraforming	terraformingului
vocative	terraformingule