teletransport

English

Etymology

From tele- +‎ transport.

Noun

teletransport (uncountable)

1. Synonym of teletransportation
   • 1990 July 12, Peter Unger, Identity, Consciousness and Value, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85:

     Very much as we should certainly discount the happy time-travel response as of no philosophic utility, so we should almost certainly discount the quick response concerning teletransport.

   • 2000, Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, page 57:

     Furthermore, between you immediately before the teletransport and each of these replicants immediately after, there would be very strong psychological connectedness.

   • 2012 December 13, Logan Keen, House of Gideon: Before the Myth, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 93:

     Sarah was with Yarwin in the teletransport room. […] One of his great inventions was the long-distance teletransport device.

Verb

teletransport (third-person singular simple present teletransports, present participle teletransporting, simple past and past participle teletransported)

1. Alternative form of teleport
   • 2001, Science Fiction and Organization, →ISBN, page 109; republished United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2003 August 29:

     In the old Star Trek movies man teletransports, rematerializes, in a new cyber-spectacle.

   • 2010 July 20, Christopher Daly, An Introduction to Philosophical Methods, Broadview Press, →ISBN:

     Again, the thought experiments need to explain how a person could be teletransported from one place to another.

   • 2012 December 13, Logan Keen, House of Gideon: Before the Myth, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 91:

     The ship hovered behind the moon of Hades just enough to give them a clear line of sight to teletransport to the planet’s surface.

   • 2016 February 18, Anna Hackett, Phoenix Adventures Box Set: A SciFi Romance Collection, →ISBN:

     At eighteen hundred hours, Technis time, the two people allowed by the invite will be teletransported to the surface.