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technosignature
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Etymology
Noun
technosignature (plural technosignatures)
- (archaeology, anthropology) A phenomenon indicating that a particular technology is or was used by a particular society; (astrophysics, astrobiology) a phenomenon indicating that a particular technology is or was present in some place (for example, a phenomenon suggesting that a Dyson sphere might exist in a certain region of space).
- Hypernyms: signature, sign
- Hyponym: technofossil
- Coordinate term: biosignature
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