* Uchronia, a form of historical fantasy that posits a fictional " what may have happened " ( as in The Lord of the Rings )

* Uchronia has an introduction to the topic, and lists over 2000 works of alternate history.

* Uchronia. net: The Two Georges

It was coined by Charles Renouvier as the title of his 1876 novel Uchronie ( L ' Utopie dans l ' histoire ), esquisse historique apocryphe du développement de la civilisation européenne tel qu ' il n ' a pas été, tel qu ' il aurait pu être ( Uchronia ( Utopia in History ), an Apocryphal Sketch of the Development of European Civilization Not as It Was But as It Might Have Been ), reprinted 1988, ISBN 2-213-02058-2.

* Pavane Uchronia: The Alternate History List detailed summary and international bibliography.

The term Afroasiatic Urheimat ( Urheimat meaning " original homeland " in German ) refers to the ' hypothetical ' place where Proto-Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.

Korean reunification ( Korean: 통일, also called 남북통일 ( in the South, literally South-North Reunification ), 북남통일 ( in the North, literally North – South Reunification ) and 조국통일 ( usually in the North, literally Homeland Reunification ) refers to the hypothetical future reunification of DPR Korea and Republic of Korea under a single government.

The term ideal machine refers to a hypothetical mechanical system in which energy and power are not lost or dissipated through friction, deformation, wear, or other inefficiencies.

Examining, adapting and developing the work of Zecharia Sitchin, the book refers to the hypothetical Planet X, and suggests an orbital period of 3661 solar years with a return date in 2012.

Orchestration refers to the hypothetical process by which connective proteins, known as microtubule-associated proteins ( MAPs ) influence or orchestrate the quantum processing of the microtubules.

In particle physics, the chargino is a hypothetical particle which refers to the mass eigenstates of a charged superpartner, i. e. any new electrically charged fermion ( with spin 1 / 2 ) predicted by supersymmetry.

It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water.

The term " bradyon ", from ( bradys, “ slow ”), was coined to contrast with " tachyon ", from ( tachys, “ swift, quick, fast, rapid ”), which refers to hypothetical particles that travel faster than light.

Korean reunification ( Korean: 남북통일 ) refers to the hypothetical future reunification of North Korea and South Korea under a single government.

In Marxian political economy, simple commodity production also refers to a hypothetical economy used to interpret some of Karl Marx's insights about the economic laws governing the development of commodity trade: it refers to a market economy in which all producers own the resources ( including the ability to work ) that they use in production.

It was originally most commonly used in describing the output of a hypothetical business ; in computer technology, it refers to any arbitrary item that may be made to appear on the screen.

The hypothetical name refers to a possible identification with the Nazarene community of Roman period Palestine.

World War III, World War Three or Third World War generally refers to a hypothetical future World War, usually fought with nuclear weapons, but thought to be occurring or already have occurred, such as the alternate definitions of the Cold War and / or the War on Terror.

Post-capitalism refers to any hypothetical future economic system that is to supersede capitalism as the dominant form of economic organization.

The biconditional statement of the rule of transposition (↔) refers to the relation between hypothetical (→) propositions, with each proposition including an antecent and consequential term.

Furry fandom refers to the fandom for fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics.

In the fictional Star Trek universe, there have been a number of starships named Enterprise ( where the designation refers to United Federation of Planets Star Ship rather than United States Ship ):

As in many of his later works, Heinlein refers to the idea of solipsism, but in this book develops it into an idea he called " World as Myth " — the idea that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that all fictional worlds are in fact real.

In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, the character Dennis Nedry refers to networking " eight Connection Machines ", indicating that the computers that run the fictional park are supplied by the Thinking Machines company.

The term Cookie Bear refers to two distinct fictional bears:

In reality, while Massachusetts ( where the fictional crime was committed ) does have a law requiring passersby to report a crime in progress, the most stringent punishment the characters could have suffered under those circumstances would have been a $ 500 – 2, 500 fine ( assuming they were prosecuted under state law ); in addition, the phrase " good Samaritan law ," when used in Massachusetts, refers only to the civil law definition and does not have any actual relevance to the law under which Jerry Seinfeld and his friends were prosecuted ( which would be considered a duty to rescue ).

The story repeatedly refers to real and fictional novels and fiction ; Billy reads The Valley of the Dolls ( 1966 ), and skims a Tralfamadorian novel, and participates in a radio talk show, part of a literary-expert panel discussing " The Death of the Novel.

It refers primarily to fictional family sagas dealing with British " middle-class country or village life ".

According to School of Visual Arts caricature instructor Sam Viviano, the term refers only to depictions of real-life people, and not to cartoon fabrications of fictional characters, which do not possess objective sets of physiognomic features to draw upon for reference, or to anthropomorphic depictions of inanimate objects such as automobiles or coffee mugs.

Inspirational fiction is a term that refers to fictional works with religious themes and aimed at a Christian audience.

Though he refers to many real events ( such as his writing of Ender's Game ), the short story is also completely fictional.

Kwisatz Haderach is a term in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe which refers to a prophesied messiah and superbeing.

The title refers to a line spoken by Edgar in King Lear ; the outcast Edgar ( the son of a fictional Gloucester ) pretends to be a madman named Tom o ' Bedlam and says to the deranged King, who is wandering on the windy heath, " Tom's a-cold.

In turn, the name of the fictional creature refers to the biblical account of the confusion of languages that arose in the city of Babel.

This name refers both to the Jaggis, the fictional race of hostile aliens in the game, as well as the lack of spatial anti-aliasing in the game's graphics, resulting in jagged diagonal ( or curved ) lines, colloquially known as " jaggies ".

: This article refers to the real-life village ; for J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional village see Buckland ( Middle-earth )

Lovecraft first used the name " Innsmouth " in his 1920 short story " Celephaïs " ( 1920 ), where it refers to a fictional village in England.

Comedian and talk-radio host Dennis Miller occasionally refers to a " Buford Pusser Stick " on his radio show, in reference to a fictional scene from the movie Walking Tall where Pusser uses a stick to beat up everyone in a roadhouse.

* The term world-building refers to the construction of fictional worlds or milieux.

The fictional name Tourvel refers not to the parlement in which the magistrate sits, but rather, in imitation of an aristocratic title, to his private estate.

* Philip Reeve's 2005 children's novel Infernal Devices refers briefly to a fictional organization called " Richard D ' Astardley's Flying Circus ".

Perhaps among his very best books are two collections of short stories about two gentlemanly but exceedingly hard-boiled fictional British counterspies, Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens, " middle-aged cut-throats " as one of their adversaries bitterly refers to them.

Other abilities Gamma possesses, which were not fully explored in the course of the story, are mastery of, a fictional ancient sword art which grants him a controllable aura called the " black flame of death ", and a berserk state Balmunk refers to as Gamma's " monster.

" The Terminator " ( also known as the T-800, T-850 or T-101 ) refers to a number of fictional characters portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger – a cyborg, initially portrayed as a programmable assassin and military infiltration unit.

The peryton is a fictional animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird, presumably originating in Jorge Luis Borges ' Book of Imaginary Beings, although he refers to a lost medieval manuscript as a source.