jump gate
- noun
- /dʒʌmp ɡeɪt/
- Jargon
:
puerta de salto
- The crew prepared the ship to pass through the jump gate to another star system.
Examples
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In the story, a malfunctioning jump gate stranded the explorers far from home.
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Many science fiction universes feature a jump gate as a key technology for interstellar travel.
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The spaceship passed through the jump gate swiftly.
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Have you seen the new jump gates in the latest movie?
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The crew prepared the ship to pass through the jump gate to another star system.
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In the story, a malfunctioning jump gate stranded the explorers far from home.
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Many science fiction universes feature a jump gate as a key technology for interstellar travel.
Synonyms
421
7.5
A tunnel in space that could connect distant places for fast travel
27
8.8
A device in stories that opens a doorway for instant travel between far places
Surface Forms
Morphology
jump + gate
A B1 learner who knows the common sense of 'jump' (sudden movement) and 'gate' (an entrance or portal) can plausibly infer this is a kind of portal used for rapid movement, so the basic idea is partly recoverable from the parts. However, the specific technical sense of an engineered device enabling instantaneous interstellar travel is genre-specific and not fully predictable from the constituents (and the given dictionary entry for 'gate' is missing), so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Jump gate comes from a simple science fiction picture: a gate or doorway that makes your ship jump straight to another place in space. So the phrase means 'instant travel' between places that are very far apart.