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EXTERNAL BIOLOGY:
- head = helm
- teeth = denta(e)
- hand = servo
- shoulders = rotators
- feet = peds
- arm = arm
- legs = stabilizers
- heels = struts
- skin = plating/chassis
- joint = bearing
- elbow = arm bearing
- knee = stabilizer bearing
- ankle = ped bearing
- wrist = servo bearing
- finger = digit
- mouth/jaw = mandible
- tongue = glossa
- ear = audio receptor/audial/audio
- nose = olfactory receptor
- eye = optical sensor/optic
- butt = tailpipe/exhaust
- chest = chestplate
- body = chassis
INTERNAL BIOLOGY:
- voice box/organ controlling speech ability = vocoder
- brain = processor
- nervous system = neural net?
- nerve = wire
- blood vessel (includes arteries and the like) = fuel line
- heart = spark chamber
- muscles = hydraulics
- DNA = Cybernucleic acid (CNA)
- organ (as in general term for internal organ) = Biomech
ACTIONS:
- sigh/exhale = open vents
- snort = stortor
- sleep = power down
- wake up = power up/restart/reboot (depending on context)
- knock out = shut down
- birth = hatch
- alive = online
- die = offline
- eat/drink = refuel
- open eyes = ignite optics
- growth/growing = expansion/expanding
TIME SCALE:
- second = nano-cycle
- minute = cycle
- hour = mega-cycle
- day = solar cycle
- month = para-cycle
- year = stellar cycle
- century = chord cycle
- a thousand years = ano-cycle
- 10 thousand years = trimara cycle
- 100 thousand years = arc cycle
- 1 million years = giga-cycle
- 1 billion years = orn cycle
- 1 trillion years = quartex cycle