chronoportation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined from chrono- + teleportation.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]chronoportation (usually uncountable, plural chronoportations)
- Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one temporal (and possibly spatial) point to another, generally instantaneously.
- 1961: Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Volume 67, Issue 4, "The Judas Bug" by Kelly Freas
- Too bad that chronoportation is not yet fully developed. If it were, we could go back and perhaps help the old professor figure out a gimmick for storing his universal solvent.
- 1988:Robert Crossley, introduction to Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Perhaps Butler deliberately sacrificed the neat closure that a scientific--or even pseudo-scientific--explanation of telekinesis and chronoportation would have given her novel.
- 1961: Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Volume 67, Issue 4, "The Judas Bug" by Kelly Freas
- A technique to send one's mind to another time.