teleportation

American  

[tel-uh-pawr-tay-shuhn] / ˌtɛl ə pɔrˈteɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act of teleporting; the movement of an object through mental processes.

2. the ability to teleport.

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Explanation

Teleportation is the hypothetical ability to move instantly from one place to another, skipping all the space in between — like jumping from your bedroom to a sunny beach in the blink of an eye. Teleportation is a concept often found in sci-fi and fantasy, where characters can find themselves traveling quickly between distant locations in less than the time it takes to snap their fingers. Teleportation is also commonly used in video games, allowing players to save time by warping between various areas. While it remains fictional for now, the idea of teleportation sparks curiosity about the future of travel and how technology could one day transform the way we move.

Example Sentences

It is a key ingredient in many of the technologies researchers hope will define the future, including quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum teleportation, and quantum networks.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

In late 2025, researchers demonstrated all photonic quantum teleportation using photons from distinct quantum dots in a hybrid urban network.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

About ten years ago, Professors Jöns and Trotta outlined a plan for using quantum dots as sources of entangled photon pairs in communication and teleportation systems.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

“Fire, it turns out, can be a remarkable time machine,” he writes, “a curious form of teleportation into the past and future all at once.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

Dr. Gibson-Gray developed the initial theories of spatial teleportation —then colloquially known as “time travel”—during her tenure as a quantum physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly