Hella- comb. form A proposed metric prefix for 1027, useful for describing mega-measurements like Earth's mass (6 hellagrams). The International Committee for Weights and Measures agreed to consider it after a Facebook petition garnered 30,000 signatures.
Antistrange quark n. The antimatter counterpart to a hypermassive strange quark. Believed to lurk at the core of neutron stars, antistrange quarks were recently generated at Brookhaven National Lab.
Militainment n. Videogames that make battle-training entertaining. Following the explosive success of a first-person shooter created as a recruiting tool, the military has deployed games that teach soldiers how to operate artillery and drones.
Word-of-finger adj. Marketing communicated via the keystrokes of social media. It attracts advertisers because, unlike traditional word of mouth, it can be monitored through Twitter and Facebook.
Jonathon Keats (jargon@wired)
