TELEPORTATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("teleportation" is a kind of...):

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)

Domain category:

science fiction (literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society)

Derivation:

teleport (transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another)

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