teleportation
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- noun
- /ˌtɛlɪpɔrˈteɪʃən/
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teletransporte
- Many futurists believe that teleportation could revolutionize transportation and change how we move between cities.
- teleportation spell
- teleportation device
- teleportation booth
From super strength to super speed to flight to invisibility to X-ray vision to teleportation, I've ruined a lot of dreams.
- From super strength to super speed to flight to invisibility to X-ray vision to teleportation, I've ruined a lot of dreams.
- One example they had there, and it was a Tele, A teleportation thing.
- And he argues that, well, OK, for instance, teleportation or time travel are great grand challenges of physics, but there's no attacks.
Examples
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Starting immediately, we will create teleportation bridges spanning the globe.
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Teleportation is still very much on the table.
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Then meet me at the teleportation platform in two hours.
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The government has decided that it's interested in this teleportation experiment.
Fiction book (2000) -
We've just seen the first teleportation of a human being.
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But there's also the teleportation experiment itself.
Fiction book (2000) -
As you're about to see, we've solved the physics of teleportation.
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The instantaneous teleportation of Rorschach seems to be something that can only be measured with an atomic clock.
Academic text (2018) -
Scientists are exploring the possibility of teleportation as a way to travel vast distances instantly.
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In the science fiction novel, the characters use teleportation to avoid danger and reach safety in seconds.
Synonyms
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The act of moving something between places or people
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A move of something from one place to another
Moving something from one place to another, for example a machine
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Etymology
Teleportation comes from tele- 'far' and port 'to carry', the same parts you see in telephone and transport. So in stories it means being 'carried' instantly from one place to another without travelling through the space between.