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What is "xenology"

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xenology

n. 1 (context science fiction English) The study of alien life. 2 (context genetics English) homology from horizontal gene transfer.

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Xenology

The term xenology derives from the Greek xenos, which as a substantive has the meaning "stranger, wanderer, refugee" and as an adjective "foreign, alien, strange, unusual."

Xenology (disambiguation)

Xenology may refer to:

  1. Xenology, studies of aliens (foreigners or extraterrestrials)
  2. Homology (biology)#Xenology, a biological concept
  3. Krzysztof Wodiczko#Xenology, an artistic concept of Wodiczko

Usage examples of "xenology".

Keff said, making sure the contact button scanned it in full for his Xenology records.

He thought that in his heart he must have divined what the answers were going to be within the xenology workup that would begin tomorrow.

If there was one thing that Pota Andropolous-Cade (Doctor of Science in Bio-Forensics, Doctor of Xenology, Doctor of Archeology), and her husband Braddon Maartens-Cade (Doctor of Science in Geology, Doctor of Physics in Cosmology, Associate Degree in Archeology, and licensed Astrogator) had in common, besides daughter Hypatia and their enduring, if absent-minded love for each other, it was punctuality.

General McIntyre puts my own meager knowledge to shame as he fires off commands to his adjutant to send a blistering message to the Minister of Xenology, demanding immediate and full analysis of Bessany Weyman's reports.

In the afternoons we were cadets and “gentlemen,” and recited on and were lectured concerning an endless list of subjects: math, science, galactography, xenology, hypnopedia, logistics, strategy and tactics, communications, military law, terrain reading, special weapons, psychology of leadership, anything from the care and feeding of privates to why Xerxes lost the big one.

Anna and her parents at the graduation ceremony, Professor Brogen handing out the special awards she'd gotten in Xenology, Diplomacy, and First Contact Studies, Moira showing up at the landing field the same day she was installed in her ship, still with Tomas, wonder of wonders.