teleportation

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teleportation

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Coined by author Charles Fort in his 1931 book Lo! from tele- + transportation.

noun teleportations

  1. Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

    Similar: teleport, teletransportation

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noun process of moving matter from one point to another

Españolteletransportación, teletransporte, teleportación
한국어순간이동 sun'ganidong, 텔레포테이션 tellepoteisyeon, 텔레포트 tellepoteu
日本語瞬間移動 shunkan'idō, テレポーテーション terepōtēshon, テレポート terepōto
中文瞬間移動 /瞬间移动 shùnjiān yídòng
Portuguêsteletransporte, teletransportação
Françaistéléportation, télétransportation
DeutschTeleportation
Italianoteletrasporto, teleportazione
Ελληνικάτηλεμεταφορά tilemetaforá
Русскийтелепорта́ция teleportácija
Tiếng Việtdịch chuyển tức thời
العربيةإِنْتِقَال آنِي ʔintiqāl ʔānī
עבריתשִׁגּוּר shiggur, הִתְעַתְּקוּת hit'atkút

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@misc{teleportation_2026,
  title = {teleportation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/teleportation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}