time machine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.
Something that appears to take a person or thing to another time, for example through nostalgia or delay.

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time machine time machines

Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1895 in his novel The Time Machine.

time travel Einstein-Rosen bridge wayback machine

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