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Sound
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noun
A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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verb
To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, ambitransitive
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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History
Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
