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- noun Plural form of
teleportation .
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Examples
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This is due to the inherent repetitiveness of games: After you've fought your 200th "splicer" in BioShock , you're pretty accustomed to their gurgly ramblings, their patterns of attack, the boo-yah outta-nowhere teleportations.
Gore Is Less: Videogames Make Better Horror Than Hollywood 2007
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Laria gave a small, almost inaudible sigh of resignation: for all their years in a Talented household, the 'dinis were always more charmed by small teleportations like this than any major workings from the Tower.
Damia's Children McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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The Security Guard would only tell us his name was 'Archie', and he was doing a bit of moonlighting between teleportations.
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We've also added an ignorable confirmation dialog to reduce the chance of accidental teleportations.
World of SL 2009
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As long as you have a fixed unchangeable frame of reference in which all the teleportations take place (the rest frame of the universe - i.e. the microwave background gradiation - is a convenient frame) then you can't wouldn't violate special relativity.
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