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Definition of Time machine
1. Noun. A science fiction machine that is supposed to transport people or objects into the past or the future.
Definition of Time machine
1. Noun. A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Time Machine
Literary usage of Time machine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"The principal allies and partners of time machine are the corporations. ...
time admitted boss of time machine ..."
2. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"time machine in operation, hours 253.25 = 52 per cent. ... time machine idle,
repairs, hours 27.25 = 6 per cent. time machine idle, other causes, ..."
3. Heavens by Louis Untermeyer (1922)
"THE HEAVEN OF THE TIME-MACHINE §i You must imagine a vast laboratory—a tremendous
affair of several thousand miles—stretching its spotless length of ..."
4. A Naval Encyclopædia: Comprising a Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases (1880)
"When making time machine ready for time, an endless rope of time ... time machine,
as received, was fitted with a tackle to tauten time endless rope ..."
5. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1895)
"The Man who Made the time machine was a scientist and inventor. He had a theory,
... You can't afford to miss " The time machine." (Holt. 75 c. ..."
6. Principles of Political Economy by Simon Newcomb (1885)
"If it is a percentage of what time machine sells for, we may deduct this percentage
from what time machine sells for in the first column. ..."
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