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Definition of Teleportation

1. Noun. A hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another.

Definition of Teleportation

1. Noun. Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in-between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways. ¹

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Definition of Teleportation

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Literary usage of Teleportation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"Other friends of Pavel's busied themselves inventing such basic amenities as teleportation and paging, as well as an extensive system of “help” files to ..."

2. An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology by Nist (2005)
"... quantum information processing in ion systems: teleportation (Barrett et al., 2004) and the semiclassical Fourier transform (Chiaverini et al., 2005). ..."

3. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"But to have human teleportation, you have to freeze thought. You certainly don't want to lose synapses in the translation process. ..."

4. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"... kinds of magic scrolls as subclasses of the magic-scroll class with interesting do-magic methods; for example, you might make a scroll-of-teleportation. ..."

5. Mathematical Statistics and Applications: Festschrift for Constance Van Eeden by Marc Moore, Constance van Eeden, Sorana Froda, Christian Léger (2003)
"... the extraordinary nature of the predictions and exploits the discovered phenomena (teleportation, entanglement-assisted communication, and so on). ..."

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