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n. (context science fiction English) A hypothetical substance with anti-gravity effects.
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- redirect The First Men in the Moon
Usage examples of "cavorite".
We learn about it in school, how James and Daryl Twerdahi and the rest took off in Cavorite and left the Road behind them.
The plan called for Cavorite to return, and eventually to make a second journey, scattering animals and birds along the path.
Any meteor might be Cavorite in reentry, or Argos among the asteroids, making a few seconds' burn.
The coming of Columbiad and Cavorite had been good for the fool cages.
If Cavorite came back this far to seed a swamp, why not come all the way back to Spiral Town?
She brushed sensuously past Tim and breathed into his ear, "I am so sick of hearing about Cavorite," and was gone.
It was an old wooden toy model of Cavorite, vague in detail, worn by handling in places.
But the caravan was already moving, and Twerdahi Town wanted knives, and Otterfolk remembered enough of Cavorite to draw pictures.
Tim saw a meteor from the west, not blue-bright enough to match vids he'd seen of Cavorite rising to orbit, but still.
Those added lines were fiction, though, drawn by people long dead who never knew where Cavorite had gone.
It was worth remembering that Cavorite had flown, that the crew had seen patterns a bicyclist or merchant could only guess at.
They flew Cavorite to orbit from Terminus a lot of times, then from Mount Canaveral just once.
If they seared this valley, Cavorite must have seared and seeded every valley between here and the Road.
Maybe I'd follow the Road the rest of the way to Destiny Town and see where Cavorite ended.
He tried to tell her what he'd learned about speckles, Cavorite, Argos, the Windfarm, Destiny Town.