shipmind

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noun

An intelligent entity (either an artificial intelligence or alien) used to control a spaceship.

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Meanings

nounshipmind (plural shipminds)

plural shipminds

  1. An intelligent entity (either an artificial intelligence or alien) used to control a spaceship.

    The crossing didn’t set off any alarms or anything. I wouldn’t even have noticed it, but my shipmind, Hypatia, is programmed to notice things that I don’t, if she thinks they might interest me.

    2004, Frederik Pohl, The Boy Who Would Live Forever, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101

Origin

Compound of ship + mind.

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