novum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A new feature, a novelty.

   “we find among the cultured devotees a tendency to idealize a foreign civilisation — a novum in Chinese history.”

2. isim An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is afforded plausibility by the assumption that the fictional setting is scientifically consistent.
3. isim A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.

   “Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.”