time machine

English

Etymology

Coined by H. G. Wells in his novel The Time Machine (1895).

Noun

time machine (plural time machines)

1. (chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.
   • 2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee (lyrics and music), “Time Machine”, in Lights Out‎^[1], performed by Ingrid Michaelson:

     If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"

2. (colloquial, euphemistic) A bed.

Derived terms

• backwards time machine
• forward time machine
• Tipler time machine

Translations

device used to travel in time

• Arabic: آلَة زَمَن f (ʔālat zaman)
• Breton: ribourzerez f
• Bulgarian: маши́на на вре́ме f (mašína na vréme)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 時間機器／时间机器 (si⁴ gaan³ gei¹ hei³)

  Mandarin: 時間機器／时间机器 (zh) (shíjiān jīqì), 時光機／时光机 (zh) (shíguāngjī)

• Czech: stroj času (cs) m
• Danish: tidsmaskine
• Dutch: tijdmachine (nl) f
• Esperanto: tempomaŝino (eo)
• Estonian: ajamasin
• Finnish: aikakone (fi)
• French: machine à explorer le temps f, machine à voyager dans le temps f, machine à remonter le temps f
• Georgian: დროის მანქანა (drois mankana)
• German: Zeitmaschine (de) f
• Greek: χρονομηχανή (el) f (chronomichaní)
• Hungarian: időgép (hu)
• Icelandic: tímavél f
• Italian: macchina del tempo (it) f
• Japanese: タイムマシン (ja) (taimumashin), タイムマシーン (taimumashīn)
• Korean: 타임머신 (taimmeosin)
• Macedonian: времеплов m (vremeplov), временска машина f pl (vremenska mašina)
• Mongolian: цаг хугацааны машин (cag xugacaany mašin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tidsmaskin m

• Polish: wehikuł czasu (pl) m
• Portuguese: máquina do tempo f
• Romanian: mașina timpului f
• Russian: маши́на вре́мени (ru) f (mašína vrémeni)
• Serbo-Croatian: вре̏мепло̄в m, vrȅmeplōv (sh) m, временска машина f, vremenska mašina f
• Slovak: časostroj m, stroj času m
• Slovene: časovni stroj m
• Spanish: máquina del tiempo f
• Swedish: tidsmaskin (sv) c
• Turkish: zaman makinası
• Ukrainian: маши́на ча́су f (mašýna čásu)
• Vietnamese: cỗ máy thời gian
• Welsh: peiriant amser m

See also

• time travel
• Einstein-Rosen bridge
• wayback machine