of an environment or planet: transformed by terraforming n.
Rick omitted breakfast and hurried to the laboratory, just under the crown of the terraformed hill.
That little terraformed planetoid, outside the mines and the drift, had been the base of supplies for Freedonia.
Secretly it seemed to him that it might be more interesting to colonize a ‘wild’ planet than one extensively terraformed and worked over by Earth Expeditionary.
We are challenged by some two-bit species…who now own two little terraformed planets that sit right astride our only route to the colony on Omnivarium?
Twelve miles below him, under the pexiglass dome of the terraformed colony of Mimas, half the ship’s crew were on planet leave.
AutoSpace has succeeded in establishing viable colonies on more than a dozen habitable or terraformed bodies!
Wanda invariably found herself out here, scratching at the terraformed ground, as if coaxing a few plants to life might somehow, in some tiny measure, ameliorate her pain.
All its metals together total about twenty trillion dollars, but the value of a terraformed Mars is more in the neighbourhood of two hundred trillion dollars.
The terraformed crater of Mars were sharp with the tang of oxide-rich soil.
For a moment I allowed myself to imagine what it would be like to breathe clean, sweet air without having to wear a mask every time I went outside. In the holos, fully terraformed worlds were lush and verdant, with trees rustling in the wind and flowers that flourished without having to be coddled in the protected gardens of wealthy people.
antedating 1942
Jack Williamson, "Minus Sign"
Earliest cite in the OED: 1949.
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