Ammonia
A colorless gas with a characteristically pungent smell.
Binary
A numerical system that only uses two digits: 0 and 1. Computers use binary, meaning that they store data and preform calculations using zero and one.
Black hole
A region of space that has a gravitational field so intense that nothing can escape.
Blight
A plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts.
Colonization
Moving from an established place to an unknown place.
Cyst
A thin-walled, hollow organ or cavity containing a liquid secretion.
Discretion
The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information.
Interstellar
Astronomy: Taking place, or traveling among the stars
Lazarus
Foreshadowing in the film. From the Bible, Lazarus was a friend of Jesus Christ and the brother of Mary and Martha. He died but was brought to life again by Jesus.
Okra
A plant of the mallow family with long, ridged seedpods.
Paradox
A statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.
Physicist
A scientist who studies the interactions of matter and energy in the universe.
Plague
A contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people.
Propaganda
Biased or misleading information that is distributed with the intent of publicizing a certain cause or point of view.
Quantum Physics
A specialized branch of physics that deals with energy, atoms, and photons.
Relativity
The dependence of various physical elements on relative motion of the observer.
Retro
Reminiscent of an earlier time; something that pays homage to something from the past
Terraforming
Transforming a planet to make it habitable and like Earth
Tesseract
A four-dimensional hypercube.
Wormhole
A hypothetical connection between widely separated regions of space-time.
