Ringworld is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ringworld in a sentence
Ringworld meaning
An artificial megastructure in space, consisting of a rotating ring encircling a star and having an inhabitable inner surface with gravity produced through centripetal force.
Using Ringworld
- The main meaning on this page is: An artificial megastructure in space, consisting of a rotating ring encircling a star and having an inhabitable inner surface with gravity produced through centripetal force.
- In the example corpus, ringworld often appears in combinations such as: the ringworld, ringworld and, ringworld companion.
Context around Ringworld
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ringworld
- In this selection, "ringworld" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, novel, publications, titular, companion, role and itself stand out and add context to how "ringworld" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an ancient ringworld map louis and and the ringworld companion both. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ringworld" sits close to words such as adjoint, affixes and agonisingly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ringworld
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A third game, Ringworld: Within ARM's Reach, was also planned, but never completed. (14 words)
Based on his studies of an ancient Ringworld map, Louis devises a plan to escape. (15 words)
Female Kzinti are not sapient, although among the archaic Kzinti found on the Ringworld some are. (16 words)
Niven himself recommended that Hewitt write one of the stories for the original two MKW books, although this never came to pass. Scatterbrain, pp. 293-301 Game play The players initially play explorers from Known Space, sent as scouts to the Ringworld. (42 words)
Niven himself recommended that Hewitt write one of the stories for the original two MKW books, although this never came to pass. Scatterbrain, pp. 293-301 Tsunami Games released two adventure games based on Ringworld. (35 words)
There is a section on the "City Builders"—a Ringworld race that dominated the Ringworld, built floating cities, and sent spaceships to explore other worlds, until a mysterious technological virus destroyed their empire. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Publications Ringworld Companion cover Only two publications were ever published, the Ringworld role-playing game box set itself, and the Ringworld Companion, both in 1984 by Chaosium.
In Niven's novel Ringworld's Children the Ringworld itself is converted into a gigantic Quantum II hyperdrive and launched into hyperspace while within its star's gravity well.
It's worth money." citation After the publication of Ringworld many fans identified numerous engineering problems in the Ringworld as described in the novel.
Larry Niven's classic 1970 sci-fi novel "Ringworld" was inspired by Freeman Dyson and his theory of Dyson spheres (see chapter 8, "Ringworld").
None of the crew's attempts at contacting the Ringworld succeed, and their ship, the Lying Bastard, is disabled by the Ringworld's automated meteoroid-defense system.
There is a section on the "City Builders"—a Ringworld race that dominated the Ringworld, built floating cities, and sent spaceships to explore other worlds, until a mysterious technological virus destroyed their empire.
His hope is that the new perspectives will provide a deeper connection and understand their religious fervor for the titular ringworld.
A third game, Ringworld: Within ARM's Reach, was also planned, but never completed.
Based on his studies of an ancient Ringworld map, Louis devises a plan to escape.
By the time Ringworld takes place, Kzinti are able to deal with other races diplomatically, rather than by attacking and enslaving them.
Female Kzinti are not sapient, although among the archaic Kzinti found on the Ringworld some are.
Gamemaster Book The Gamemaster Book begins with technical essays on the Ringworld, from physical construction, to life on the ring, with diagrams.
In Ringworld, the character Teela Brown is said to be the ultimate expression of this ability.
In the station they meet Halrloprillalar Hotrufan ("Prill"), a former crew member of a spaceship used for trade between the Ringworld and other inhabited worlds.
It orbits CY Aquarii, Oddly, the Ringworld Roleplaying book places it around Fomalhaut instead, in contradiction with primary sources such as Niven's Grendel short story.
Like a ringworld, the orbital rotates to provide an analog of gravity on the inner surface.
Likewise, every hominid species found on the Ringworld is descended from Pak breeders, and all are susceptible to the virus of Tree-of-life.
Most Ringworld societies have forgotten that they live on an artificial structure, and now attribute the phenomena and origin of their world to divine power.
Niven himself recommended that Hewitt write one of the stories for the original two MKW books, although this never came to pass. Scatterbrain, pp. 293-301 Game play The players initially play explorers from Known Space, sent as scouts to the Ringworld.
Niven himself recommended that Hewitt write one of the stories for the original two MKW books, although this never came to pass. Scatterbrain, pp. 293-301 Tsunami Games released two adventure games based on Ringworld.
Common combinations with ringworld
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: