Definitions For Terraforming

Verb

{{infl of, en, terraform, , ing-form}} {{C, en, Engineering, Space colonization}}

Noun

TERRAFORMING (uncountable) 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.

Synonyms

planetary engineering terraformation

Hypernyms

forming

Hyponyms

paraterraforming

Coordinate terms

geoengineering pantropy

Translations

Arabic: إِعَادَة تَأْهِيل, f (ʔiʕādat taʔhīl), تِيرَافُورْمِينْغ, m (teraforming), تِيرَافُورْمِينْغ, m (tīrāfurminḡ) Azerbaijani: terraformalaşdırılma Bengali: পৃথিবীকরণ Catalan: ecopoesi, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 地球化 (dìqiúhuà) Czech: terraformace, f Danish: terraformning Dutch: terravorming Esperanto: teroformigo Finnish: maankaltaistaminen, terraformointi French: terraformation, f, terraforming, m, terraformage, m German: Terraforming, n Greek: γεωπλασία, f, γεωμόρφωση, f, γαιοπλασία, γαιοδιαμόρφωση, γαιοσχηματισμός Hebrew: הארצה, f, tr=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, 지구화(地球化) Lithuanian: teraformavimas, m Macedonian: земјообразба, f, тераформирање, n Norwegian: terraforming : Bokmål: terraforming Persian: زمینی‌سازی (zamini-sâzi) Polish: terraformowanie, n Portuguese: terraformação, f Romanian: terraformare Russian: терраформи́рование, n, террафо́рминг, m (tɛrrafórming) Serbo-Croatian: тераформирање, n, sc=Cyrl, teraformiranje, n Spanish: terraformación, f Swedish: terraformning, terraformering Turkish: Dünyalaştırma Ukrainian: тераформува́ння, n Vietnamese: địa khai hóa

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