flux capacitor

Definitions

A fictional instrument required to operate a time machine, consisting of a rectangular-shaped compartment with three flashing Geissler-style tubes arranged in a "Y" configuration.

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Examples

“Tucked into the corner of the Rinky Dink Flea Market in Marietta is a time machine that transports its visitors to an era before digital music. It doesn’t need⟳ a flux capacitor to work⟳, just a plug⟳ to power the vintage stereos and turntables that produce⟳ the sounds of the thousands of vinyl records sold there.”

“Is this a glitch? Is the system experiencing an outage? It is a temptation that is best resisted, the urge⟳ to talk⟳ about this Chelsea team as a piece of fine-point engineering, to style Thomas Tuchel as a pure systems man, poring over his data charts, banging his dials, reconfiguring the flux capacitor with a bent hairpin.”

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