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Meaning of chronoportation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one temporal (and possibly spatial) point to another, generally instantaneously.
    uncountable, usually
  2. A technique to send one's mind to another time.
    uncountable, usually

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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