teleportation

See also: téléportation

English

Etymology

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

Noun

teleportation (plural teleportations)

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.

Derived terms

quantum teleportation

Translations

process of moving matter from one point to another

Arabic: إِنْتِقَال آنِي‎ (ʾintiqāl ʾānī)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 瞬間移動, 瞬间移动 (shùnjiān yídòng)
Dutch: teleportatie (nl)
Esperanto: teleportado
Estonian: teleportatsioon
Finnish: teleportaatio, kaukosiirto, teleportti
French: téléportation (fr) f
Georgian: ტელეპორტაცია (ṭeleṗorṭacia)
German: Teleportation (de) f
Greek: τηλεμεταφορά (el) f (tilemetaforá)

Hebrew: שִׁגּוּר‎ (he) m (shiggur), הִתְעַתְּקוּת‎ f (hit'atkút)
Italian: teletrasporto (it)
Japanese: 瞬間移動 (しゅんかんいどう, shunkan-idō)
Polish: teleportacja (pl) f
Portuguese: teletransporte m
Russian: телепорта́ция (ru) f (teleportácija)
Slovene: teleportacija f
Spanish: teleportación, teletransporte
Swedish: teleportering c
Ukrainian: телепортація (teleportácija)

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