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• anobot /nan'oh-bot/ n. A robot of microscopic proportions, presumably built by means of nanotechnology.
  As yet, only used informally (and speculatively!). Also called a `nanoagent'....
• anotechnology:: /nan'-oh-tek-no`l*-jee/ n. A hypothetical fabrication technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom.
  The first unequivocal nanofabrication experiments took place in 1990, for example with the deposition of individual xenon atoms on a nickel substrate to spell the logo of a certain very large computer company....
• anotechnology /nan'-oh-tek-no`l*-jee/ n. A hypothetical fabrication technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom.
  The first unequivocal nanofabrication experiments took place in 1990, for example with the deposition of individual xenon atoms on a nickel substrate to spell the logo of a certain very large computer company....
• eplicator: n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself
  his could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program (see {quine}, {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb}, and {virus}), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see {life}, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot}....
• ano-: [SI: the next quantifier below {micro-}; meaning * 10^(-9)] pref.
  Smaller than {micro-}, and used in the same rather loose and connotative way....
• blue goo: n. Term for `police' {nanobot}s intended to prevent {gray goo}
  denature hazardous waste, destroy pollution, put ozone back into the stratosphere, prevent halitosis, and promote truth, justice, and the American way, etc....
• obot n. See bot.
• ilo: n. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 line card.
  So called from DEC terminology used on DH and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11, presumably because it was a storage space for fungible stuff that went in at the top and came out at the bottom....
• gray goo: n. A hypothetical substance composed of {sagan}s of sub-micron-sized self-replicating robots programmed to make copies of themselves out of whatever is available.
  The image that goes with the term is one of the entire biosphere of Earth being eventually converted to robot goo....