Glossary

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This glossary offers quick definitions of terms used in discussing the Star Wars Films and this wiki.
== A ==
=== Adrenaline ===
Adrenaline or Epinephrine is a hormone and a neurotransmitter. It is secreted by the adrenal medulla. When released into the bloodstream it increases heart rate and stroke volume, dilates the pupils, and constricts arterioles in the skin and gut while dilating arterioles in leg muscles. Often listed as being the source of abnormal feats of strength or agility, or the trigger of super-human powers.
=== Alter Ego ===
An alter ego (from Latin, "other I") is another self, a second personality or persona within a person. The term is commonly used in comic books and related media, for the alternate or secret identity of a superheroes and supervillains.
=== Amphibious ===
Capable of breathing and existing in air or in water.
===Anti-Serum===
A blood serum containing antibodies used to pass on passive immunity to a particular diseases.
===Android===
An artificial being designed to resemble a human being in as many ways as possible, and whose physiology and life functions replicate and mimic those of human beings as closely as possible. An android could be a robot or synthetic organism.
===Anti-Hero===
An anti-hero has widely come to mean a character who has some characteristics that are antithetical to those of the traditional hero. An anti-hero will perform acts generally deemed "heroic," but will do so with methods, manners, or intentions that may not be heroic.
===Anti-Matter===
Matter composed of particles that are the counterparts of the particles composing positive matter (the matter of which this universe is composed), but have opposite charges; e.g., anti-protons instead of protons, and positrons instead of electrons. Should positive matter come in contact with an equal amount of antimatter, both will be annihilated and converted to energy.
===Artificial Intelligence===
The intelligence exhibited by machines or software.
==B==
===Backscatter===
The scattering of radiation or particles in a direction opposite to that of the incident radiation due to reflection from particles of the medium traversed.
===Big Bang===
The expansion of a primal space at the beginning of this universe, which created the universe.
===Bioelectricity===
Electricity generated naturally by a living being.
===Bionic===
Of or having to do with an artificial simulation of a living thing or, more usually, of part of a living thing. A cyborg possesses certain bionic limbs or organs. An android's body is entirely bionic.
===Black Hole===
A region of space-time with such a strong gravitational pull that no particle or electromagnetic radiation can escape from it.
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