Teleportation vs. Teleport — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Teleportation and Teleport
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Teleportation
Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction literature and in other popular culture.
Teleport
To transport by teleportation.
Teleportation
A hypothetical method of transportation in which matter is converted into minute particles or into energy at one point and re-created in original form at another.
Teleport
(intransitive) To travel, often instantaneously, from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.
Teleportation
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.
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Teleport
(transitive) To move (an object) in this fashion, as by telekinesis.
Teleportation
A hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another
Teleport
(scifi) A teleporter.
Teleport
A satellite ground station.
Teleport
Transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another
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