Teleport vs Transmat - What's the difference?
teleport | transmat |
To travel from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.
To move an object in this fashion, as by telekinesis.
(scifi) A teleporter.
A satellite ground station.
* 2004 , D. K. Sachdev, Business Strategies For Satellite Systems (page 131)
(British, science fiction) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
* 1970 , Robert Silverberg, Tower of Glass :
* 1975 , Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks'' (''Doctor Who , season 12, serial 4), opening dialogue:
* 2005 , Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf'' (''Doctor Who series 1, episode 12):
As nouns the difference between teleport and transmat
is that teleport is (scifi) a teleporter while transmat is (british|science fiction) a teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.As a verb teleport
is to travel from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.teleport
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(teleportation)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (to travel from one point to another without physically crossing the distance) beamNoun
(en noun)- Teleports provide access to multiple satellites and other media as well. Independently owned teleports may also provide competitive access to different satellite systems.
transmat
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Noun
(en noun)- Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats , heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents,
- TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor.
- DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam?
- TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.
- LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat . Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.