English Explanatory Dictionary

transmat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
verb
  1. To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.

Word forms

transmat transmats trans-mat transmatting transmatted

Etymology

Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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