time travel
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7.5
- noun
- /taɪm ˈtrævəl/
- Specialized
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depuración temporal
Examples
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I am just not a full-time travel blogger!
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The most succinct point I can think of is letting them know that time travel right now is not doable yet.
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Similarly, by logging and tracking the changes made to a virtual disk, the virtualization layer can offer a time travel feature, making it possible to move a VM's file system backward to an earlier point in time.
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One day I hope James and I at OurOyster will be big enough that we can work maybe just part-time—full-time job + full-time travel + full-time blogging is exhausting... but it's awesome too.
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Developers can use time travel features to debug and analyze previous states of the program.
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With the time travel tool, programmers can easily revert changes and trace bugs in their code.
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This software incorporates time travel functionality, allowing users to view earlier versions of their projects.
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 in computing comes from the same picture: programmers imagine moving through a program's time to travel back or forward, like rewinding or replaying a recorded video. That's why it means to 'rewind' or 'replay' a program's steps to find bugs.