teleportation
Americannoun
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teleportations
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the act of teleporting; the movement of an object through mental processes.
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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.
Vocabulary lists containing teleportation
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When the novel begins, Bartholomew “Mew” Port travels in a teleportation device called a spinner from London to a futuristic or maybe alternate-reality Dublin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
There’s a teleportation device, a handsome demon played by LaKeith Stanfield and skinless stop-motion humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
To take advantage of quantum teleportation, scientists are designing quantum repeaters that can renew quantum information before it disappears in the fiber.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025
On one side, there’s a palpable level of excitement about the new possibilities offered by spatial teleportation.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
So she conceived of an updated version of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that had the technology to intercept teleportations, and transport people to a holding place on the Caps.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
The disrupted teleportations result in physiological glitches, including pixelated bodies and a ghoulishly hilarious deformation Bennani calls “plastic face syndrome,” whereby skin is covered in a layer of plastic.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
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