ANSIBLE: A machine that allows for faster-than-light communication so two parties can communicate in real time over interstellar distances.
The word “ansible,” which seems to just be a made up word, first appears in Rocannon’s Worldby Ursula K. Le Guin:
“But if your kinfolk, your friends, in the City Kerguelen, call you on the ansible, and there is no answer, will they not come to see—” Mogient saw the answer as Rocannon said it:
“In eight years…”
When he had shown Mogien over the Survey ship, and shown him the instantaneous transmitter, the ansible, Rocannon had told him also about the new kind of ship that could go from one star to another in no time at all.
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Ansible is one of my favorite made-up SF words. I’m not alone, other authors have used it as well, including Orson Scott Card and Vernor Vinge.