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...f everything was expressed in one standard unit system than in a diversity of unit systems local to the particular worlds and cultures under discussion i ...the "metre" spelling lends itself better to avoid ambiguity with the names of measuring devices, but whatever its merits, the Wongery complies with Ameri

...area can be thought of as the "size" of the [[manifold]], or as the amount of "material" that it would take to cover the manifold completely. ...two-dimensional shape). Unlike the surface area, the cross-sectional area of a three-dimensional manifold is not uniquely defined; it depends on the par

...ch that a normal [[human]] [[lifetime]] is generally measured in some tens of years. ..., the abbreviations "mya" for "millions of years ago", "bya" for "billions of years ago", and so on are common, though they are discouraged by some autho

...ysical law]]s seem invariant under translation, rotation, and a large host of other [[transformation (mathematics)|transformation]]s. {{main|Physics of Xi}}

...re likely to travel to another eidopolis than they are to the surroundings of their own home city—though, indeed, many eidopolitans never leave the Except for [[æalogist]]s, residents of the cities seldom use the word "Eidecia". To them, Eidecia is merely "the

...on Gala alongside the [[human (Gala)|human]]s that still form the majority of its [[ellogy|ellogous]] population. ...''didn't'' refer to the world, then "Iliwigala" couldn't mean "Great Ring of the World".)

...|South Korea]]. Given his status as one of the most prominent superheroes of the world, his disappearance has especially shaken up supers and nonsupers ...ase of the villains) than they are elsewhere. After all, clearly the life of a super is a dangerous and too often a short one; those who use their [[sup

...rly widespread, and has significantly contributed to the common stereotype of Aeolans as arrogant and self-centered. ...rld is mutable, or that some spatial warping occurs. Sometimes, the edges of the world seem to be joined together, and some travelers who have journeyed

...lenishing their numbers by causing larger organisms to split into a number of new sanhvin. ...s ten or twenty minutes before they must return to the water. (The output of air from their lungs also gives them vocal abilities; some sanhvin have eve

...e those who count [[city|cities]] and other complex, organized collections of [[intelligence|intelligent]] (or not) life forms to also be distinct life f ...are all (at least arguably) living, but abiotic. The [[magic]]al process of bestowing life on a formerly inanimate object is known as [[animation]].

...name used in the Wongery for convenience; it is not a name that residents of the [[world]] would ever use. ...ontinents for the most part are little altered beyond a slight contraction of the coasts due to the higher sea level.

...store what was lost, at least to build their own civilization in the ashes of what had gone before, until two and a half centuries after the war, commerc ...l America (Nuclearth)|Central America]] now continue north to blanket most of what was formerly [[Mexico (Nuclearth)|Mexico]], which has now lent its nam

{{otheruses|systems of communication|the capacity of language|language (mass noun)}} ...o sometimes [[metonymy|metonymically]] known as a "[[tongue]]". The study of languages is known as [[linguistics]]; a specialist in linguistics is a [[l