Kardashian

While skiing or snowboarding one sticks to exclusively black runs.

Dude I Kardashianed the whole way down!! It was sick!

by Wardy79 March 14, 2023

Kardashian

A person who runs directly into oncoming traffic, but tries to avoid being hit at the last second.

"Took many Kardashians will spoil the dash board of your car!"

by ANOTHERDEADROMEO August 15, 2023

Kardashicrite

Someone who simultaneously loves and follows the Kardashians.

Kim is the worst, but I'm watching the show because I'm a Kardashicrite.

by scheherazade12 June 8, 2023

Kardashian

A really rich dog!

Person:You have a kardashian?
Me:Yes it poops out gold!

by Fake Hooman February 2, 2024

Kardashian

A really rich dog!

Person:You have a kardashian?
Me:Yes it poops out gold!

by Fake Hooman February 2, 2024

Kardashev Scale

A theoretical framework for measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the total amount of energy it can harness and utilize. Proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964, the original scale had three types: Planetary (Type I), Stellar (Type II), and Galactic (Type III). It’s less about culture or philosophy and more about raw, cosmic-scale power management. The scale is logarithmic; each step represents an increase of energy control by a factor of billions. It's the go-to yardstick for sci-fi world-building and serious SETI research, framing humanity's place in the universe as currently a pathetic Type 0.7.

Kardashev Scale Example: When a sci-fi author says a species is a Kardashev Type II, you instantly know they build Dyson Spheres and use their sun as a personal battery pack. Humanity, still squabbling over fossil fuels and barely tapping planetary geothermal and solar, is still crawling toward Type I, putting our entire history into humbling perspective.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026

Kardashevian Mechanics

The branch of mega-engineering and physics concerned with the practical construction, stabilization, and operation of the unimaginably vast structures and energy systems required by high-level Kardashev civilizations. It's the "nuts and bolts" of godlike power: the math for stabilizing a rotating ringworld, the materials science for a Dyson Sphere's solar-collector panels, or the orbital dynamics for moving stars. This is the applied engineering manual for beings who treat planets as LEGO bricks and stars as furnaces.

Example: The calculations needed to prevent a Matrioshka Brain (a nested series of Dyson Spheres) from collapsing into its star under gravity and radiation pressure, or the logistics of using gravitational lensing to focus multiple stars' energy onto a single point for a project, are problems of Kardashevian Mechanics.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026