chronoportationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

chronoportation (usually uncountable, 複数形 chronoportations)

1. Any of many (mostly hypothetical または fictional) processes of moving matter from one temporal (かつ possibly spatial) point to another, generally instantaneously.
   • 1961: Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Volume 67, Issue 4, "The Judas Bug" by Kelly Freas

     Too bad that chronoportation is not yet fully developed. If it were, we could go back and perhaps help the old professor figure out a gimmick for storing his universal solvent.

   • 1988:Robert Crossley, introduction to Kindred by Octavia Butler

     Perhaps Butler deliberately sacrificed the neat closure that a scientific--or even pseudo-scientific--explanation of telekinesis and chronoportation would have given her novel.

2. A technique to send one's mind to another time.