English
Etymology
Coined by author Charles Fort in his 1931 book Lo! from tele- + transportation.
Pronunciation
Noun
teleportation (plural teleportations)
- Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.
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Derived terms
Translations
process of moving matter from one point to another
- Arabic: إِنْتِقَال آنِي (ʔintiqāl ʔānī)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瞬間移動 / 瞬间移动 (zh) (shùnjiān yídòng)
- Danish: teleportation c
- Dutch: teleportatie (nl)
- Esperanto: teleportado
- Estonian: teleportatsioon
- Finnish: teleportaatio, kaukosiirto, teleportti (fi)
- French: téléportation (fr) f, télétransportation (fr) f
- Georgian: ტელეპორტაცია (ṭeleṗorṭacia)
- German: Teleportation (de) f
- Greek: τηλεμεταφορά (el) f (tilemetaforá)
- Hebrew: שִׁגּוּר (he) m (shiggur), הִתְעַתְּקוּת f (hit'atkút)
- Hungarian: teleportáció, teleportálás
- Indonesian: teleportasi, lipat bumi (literally “to fold earth”)
- Italian: teletrasporto (it) m, teleportazione f
- Japanese: 瞬間移動 (ja) (しゅんかんいどう, shunkan'idō), テレポーテーション (ja) (terepōtēshon), テレポート (ja) (terepōto)
- Korean: 순간이동(瞬間移動) (sun'ganidong), 텔레포테이션 (tellepoteisyeon), 텔레포트 (tellepoteu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: teleportering
- Polish: teleportacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: teletransporte (pt) m, teletransportação f
- Russian: телепорта́ция (ru) f (teleportácija)
- Slovene: teleportacija f
- Spanish: teletransportación f, teletransporte, teleportación
- Swedish: teleportering c
- Ukrainian: телепорта́ція (teleportácija)
- Vietnamese: dịch chuyển tức thời
- Welsh: telegludiad m
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