teleportation

noun tele·por·ta·tion \ ˌte-lə-ˌpȯr-ˈtā-shən , -pər- \

Updated on: 11 Apr 2018

Definition of teleportation

1 : the act or process of moving an object or person by psychokinesis

2 in fiction : instantaeous travel between two locations without crossing the intervening space

Recent Examples of teleportation from the Web

The beauty of quantum teleportation is that the quantum information does not technically travel along the network.

— davide castelvecchi, Scientific American, "The Quantum Internet Has Arrived (and It Hasn’t)," 16 Feb. 2018
This year Alessandro Michele of Gucci introduced fall 2017 advertising images of U.F.O.s, and beam-me-up-Scottie teleportation platforms.

— ruth la ferla, New York Times, "Why Is Fashion Having an Astral Moment?," 8 Dec. 2017
Though scientists have managed teleportation over short distances on this planet, this is the first time an object has ever been teleported into space.

— tess koman, Cosmopolitan, "China Just Teleported a Goddamn Object Into Space," 13 July 2017
Not in the same way that teleportation isn’t a thing.

— laurie penny, Longreads, "The Horizon of Desire," 11 Oct. 2017
If flying, compared to older forms of travel, is essentially a kind of teleportation, then the airport is a big part of the machine.

— mark vanhoenacker, Slate Magazine, "Airports Can Be Marvels," 7 Sep. 2017
Mutant abilities — telekinesis, teleportation, fire rays — are straightforward and effectively filmed.

— mike hale, New York Times, "Review: When It Comes to New Marvel Shows, Skip ‘Inhumans’ and Try ‘The Gifted’," 28 Sep. 2017
The short video essay above explains the physics of the transporter and how a version of it could come true, thanks to one of our crazes du jour: quantum teleportation.

— daniel hubbard, Slate Magazine, "One of my favorite scenes from the original series was very wrong, but it also anticipated the future.," 20 Sep. 2017
Music has a teleportation-like quality, and Wenner harnessed that from the moment the first issue hit newsstands in November 1967.

— matt giles, Longreads, "The End of ‘Rolling Stone’ As We Know It," 19 Sep. 2017

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