How to pronounce terraform
American English pronunciation
TAIR-uh-form
- IPA
- /ˈtɛɹəˌfɔɹm/
- Syllables
- TAIR · uh · form (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What terraform means
To change a whole planet so people could live there
In a sentence: In the story, robots spent a hundred years trying to terraform the red planet.
Where it comes from: Terra is Latin for earth, so it means to shape a planet into another Earth. The science fiction writer Jack Williamson made it up.
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