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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(British, science fiction) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself..
TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor. DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam? TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.
You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.
LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.
One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere.
Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats, heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents, […]
It wasn't far enough away to think about transmatting and besides, that was no longer a viable option, what with vandals having wrecked some of the booths in the area.
'No, you're not,' Blandish put in smoothly 'You're transmatting down with me. I'll head the away team and I'll consent to let you advise.'
Donna twisted her neck around to try to find the Doctor, but she realised that she'd been transmatted alone.
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Transmat means (British, science fiction) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself..
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TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor. DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam? TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.
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