starsailingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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starsailing (uncountable)

1. (chiefly science fiction) Travel through space on a spaceship or spacecraft.

   Synonym: spacetravel

   • 2025, L. Neil Smith, Bretta Martyn:

     While the maindeck lay completely open to the Deep, protected only by the §-field which, in addition to making the act of starsailing possible, allowed mast, spars, and sails to be worked by crewbeings attired for a "shirtsleeve” environment, there were lower decks meant for cargo, passengers, and a formidable array of projectibles bearing much the same relationship to thrustibles that cannon did to pistols.

関連する語

• starsailor