time travel
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- noun
- /taɪm ˈtrævəl/
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viaje en el tiempo
- In the movie, the main character uses a machine for time travel to visit ancient civilizations.
- time travel paradoxes
- time travel is possible
- time travel is impossible
Then once they discover time travel, what happens?
- Then once they discover time travel, what happens?
- You're thinking that time travel is better than reading minds.
- So to me, the theoretical basis is there for space and time travel.
- So if you like reading about small towns, family, time travel, that is the unmaking of June Pharaoh.
- And after listening to this podcast that you did about time travel, the gentleman's name was Ronald Mallett.
- So, so no, no time travel for for engineering reasons.
- So what about, what about time travel?
Examples
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So I think this finding shows that time travel doesn't work on the quantum level.
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I think it is the best treatment of time travel that I have seen.
Blog text (3) -
And this seems to break some, some time travel rules.
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People seem to think that time travel is all fun and games.
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That is time travel to the future.
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OK guys, that was once again a little time travel into the past.
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Once the movie becomes about the time travel, it's no longer really being successful.
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Last night's time travel experiment was apparently a complete success.
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Many fine writers are masters of this kind of time travel.
Academic text (2010) -
You see, that's the thing about time travel.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound literally combines 'time' (moments) and 'travel' (journeying), so its core meaning ‘travel through time’ is directly derivable from the constituents. The computing sense (replaying or moving through program states) is a straightforward metaphorical extension of that idea and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Time travel comes from the image of moving through time as if it were a place you can travel to. One popular idea in old stories was a machine that takes people 'to the past' or 'to the future', so today the phrase means going from one time to another in fiction.