SCIENCE FICTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does science fiction mean? 

• SCIENCE FICTION (noun)
  The noun SCIENCE FICTION has 1 sense:

1. literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society

  Familiarity information: SCIENCE FICTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIENCE FICTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("science fiction" is a kind of...):

fantasy; phantasy (fiction with a large amount of imagination in it)

Domain member category:

teleportation (a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another)

teleport (transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "science fiction"):

cyberpunk (a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies)

 Context examples 

Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, in their stories.

(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)

If the name eps Eri sounds familiar, you may have already heard of it as the setting for the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

(New Observation of Nearby Star System Confirms Similarity to Ours, VOA)

Tau Ceti, a favorite destination of science fiction writers, is very similar to the sun both in size and brightness.

(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new planet circles Proxima Centauri, the smallest member of a triple star system known to science fiction fans everywhere as Alpha Centauri.

(ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star, NASA)