retcon v. to retroactively revise (a plot, storyline, character, event, history, etc.), usu. by reinterpreting past events, or by theorizing how the present would be different if past events had not happened or had happened differently. Also n...
retcon v.— «I’ll confirm that: Lucas retconned the opening credits after the release of TESB, once it was clear that the films were doing well enough that the first set would be completed. Had SW bombed, no one would have known the plans...
retcon v.— «“Crisis On Infinite Earths” solved a DC crisis all right, but it wasn’t the problem of having multiple earths. It was the problem of 50 years of continuity complicating their existing characters.…...
stigmergy n.— «The World-Wide Web is human stigmergy. The web and its ability to let anyone read anything and also to write back to that environment allows stigmeric communication between humans. Some of the most powerful forces on the...
stigmergy n.— «His hypothesis of “stigmergy” is that building behavior is at first uncoordinated…when the construction at any one point reaches a certain critical density it attracts other termites topochemically. These...
ecotone n. an area where two ecologies meet or overlap. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)