English Explanatory Dictionary

grey goo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hypothetical end-of-the-world event involving nanotechnology, in which out-of-control self-replicating nanobots consume all life on Earth (or another planet or moon).

Word forms

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Etymology

Coined by American engineer K. Eric Drexler in 1986 in Engines of Creation.

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