Chronoportation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chronoportation is a noun meaning A technique to send one's mind to another time.
Meaning
A technique to send one's mind to another time.
More Meanings
- Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one temporal (and possibly spatial) point to another, generally instantaneously.
Example Sentences
1988:Robert Crossley, introduction to Kindred by Octavia Butler Perhaps Butler deliberately sacrificed the neat closure that a scientific--or even pseudo-scientific--explanation of telekinesis and chronoportation would have given her novel.
1961: Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Volume 67, Issue 4, "The Judas Bug" by Kelly Freas Too bad that chronoportation is not yet fully developed. If it were, we could go back and perhaps help the old professor figure out a gimmick for storing his universal solvent.
Word Forms
- chronoportations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include temporalization, locomutation, transplacement, chronoclasm, commutation, transference.
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