teleportation

See also: téléportation

English

Etymology

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

Noun

teleportation (plural 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.

Synonyms

• teleport
• teletransportation

Derived terms

• teleport
• quantum teleportation

Translations

process of moving matter from one point to another

• Arabic: إِنْتِقَال آنِي (ʔintiqāl ʔānī)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瞬間移動／瞬间移动 (shùnjiān yídòng)

• Danish: teleportation c
• Dutch: teleportatie (nl)
• Esperanto: teleportado
• Estonian: teleportatsioon
• Finnish: teleportaatio, kaukosiirto, teleportti (fi)
• French: téléportation (fr) f, télétransportation (fr) f
• Georgian: ტელეპორტაცია (ṭeleṗorṭacia)
• German: Teleportation (de) f
• Greek: τηλεμεταφορά (el) f (tilemetaforá)
• Hebrew: שִׁגּוּר (he) m (shiggur), הִתְעַתְּקוּת f (hit'atkút)
• Hungarian: teleportáció, teleportálás
• Italian: teletrasporto (it)
• Japanese: 瞬間移動 (しゅんかんいどう, shunkan'idō)
• Korean: 순간이동 (sun'ganidong)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: teleportering

• Polish: teleportacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: teletransporte (pt) m, teletransportação f
• Russian: телепорта́ция (ru) f (teleportácija)
• Slovene: teleportacija f
• Spanish: teletransportación f, teletransporte, teleportación
• Swedish: teleportering c
• Ukrainian: телепорта́ція (teleportácija)
• Vietnamese: dịch chuyển tức thời