spacegram

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noun

A short written message physically sent through space.

Scrabble 16
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Meanings

nounspacegram (plural spacegrams)

plural spacegrams

  1. literatureA short written message physically sent through space.

    Several times during their work and breaks to eat, Versha had received spacegrams or messages through the comcaller.

    2006, Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie, Beast Master's Quest, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 65
verbspacegram (third-person singular simple present spacegrams, present participle spacegramming, simple past and past participle spacegrammed)

present singular third person spacegrams · participle present spacegramming · participle past spacegrammed · past spacegrammed

  1. intransitivetransitiveliteratureTo send by spacegram.

    "We'll spacegram the specifications as soon as this call is finished," said Jerry. "How soon can we have a shipment?"

    1952 March, Kendell Foster Crossen, “Things of Distinction”, in Startling Stories, volume 25, number 2, page 115

Origin

From space + -gram (“something written, drawn or otherwise recorded”).

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APA

spacegram. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spacegram

MLA

“spacegram.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spacegram. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spacegram,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spacegram.

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