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名詞

rocketport (複数形 rocketports)

1. (chiefly science fiction) A spaceport.
   • 1974, M[ichael] John Harrison, The Centauri Device, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 178:

     This time, he knew for whom he was asking: they waited—as they've always waited, at rocketports, pneumatique stations, in delousing sheds and hand-out queues; in the greasy front offices of courts and refugee camps and detention bureaus—tired and grimy and stoned.

参照

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2023), “rocketport, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.