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egan

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for egan.

Editorial note

Niven and Egan would be classic examples from different decades (Niven's post-1977 work, and his collaborations, not so much).

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A place in the United States:

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of egan gathered in one view.

noun

A place in the United States:

noun

A ghost town in California.

noun

An unincorporated community in Leaf River Township, Ogle County, Illinois.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for egan.

noun

A place in the United States:

noun

A ghost town in California.

noun

An unincorporated community in Leaf River Township, Ogle County, Illinois.

noun

A census-designated place in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.

Example sentences

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Niven and Egan would be classic examples from different decades (Niven's post-1977 work, and his collaborations, not so much).

2

You can see the development of egan's own thinking along the way.

3

I was wondering about Niven, Egan and others and realising that I tend to enjoy my fiction without consciously analysing it.

4

Anything from Greg Egan gets my attnetion!

5

Yeah, Egan's "Dust Theory FAQ" page discusses some of the philosophical problems with the novel.

6

It would be fine to follow Greg Egan's usage with ve and vir for virtual personalities.

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Plus, as in Egan's Diaspora, virtual entities can hibernate, or live at far lower clock frequency.

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BTW most of what I know about black hole physics is from Greg Egan's novel "Incandescence".

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Greg Egan's "Disapora"[1] (where most of us literally live in computers) and "Permutation City"[2] (living in a cellular automata).

10

Check out Greg Egan's Permutation City in which sort of the opposite happens.

11

I’ll update this as more information becomes available." It's also a more boring version of the plot from Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan.

12

Egan's publisher recently ran off a new printing of many books in his back catalog that were hard to find in the US.

Quote examples

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Yeah, Egan's "Dust Theory FAQ" page discusses some of the philosophical problems with the novel.

2

BTW most of what I know about black hole physics is from Greg Egan's novel "Incandescence".

3

Greg Egan's "Disapora"[1] (where most of us literally live in computers) and "Permutation City"[2] (living in a cellular automata).

4

I’ll update this as more information becomes available." It's also a more boring version of the plot from Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan.

Proper noun examples

1

It would be fine to follow Greg Egan's usage with ve and vir for virtual personalities.

2

Plus, as in Egan's Diaspora, virtual entities can hibernate, or live at far lower clock frequency.

3

Check out Greg Egan's Permutation City in which sort of the opposite happens.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use egan in a sentence?

Niven and Egan would be classic examples from different decades (Niven's post-1977 work, and his collaborations, not so much).

What does egan mean?

A place in the United States:

What part of speech is egan?

egan is commonly used as noun.