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ca·vorite
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cavoritenoun
A hypothetical substance with anti-gravity effects.
Etymology: First used in 1901 in The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells. It was named after the fictional Dr. Cavor. The initial use was capitalized, but later authors borrowing the concept sometimes changed it to lowercase.
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The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantastic stories". The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites". The inspiration seems to come from the famous 1870 book by Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, and the opera by Jacques Offenbach from 1875. In that opera the word "selenites" is used for the first time for moon inhabitants.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Cavorite in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Cavorite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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- KavoritGerman
- cavoritaSpanish
- cavoriteHindi
- kedvenceHungarian
- kavoritIndonesian
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