Definitions
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- noun UK, science fiction A
teleporter ; a fictional device thattransfers /transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Doctor and friends are caught up in a peculiar problem involving AIs and an interplanetary mass transmat system, but also involving grizzled war veterans and various other factions.
May Books 19) Lord of the Flies, by William Golding nwhyte 2010
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Once we know where they are we might be able to disable their transmat system and force them to show their hand.
Talking About Episode Six - Speculation Spoilers amberfocus 2008
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It can hear you. are all gathered when a transmat opens and Dominator shock troops pour out of it.
Supergirl & The Legion of Super-Heroes #28 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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They had seen matter transportation before, but most transmat on Thallon was done with sending and receiving platforms.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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They had seen matter transportation before, but most transmat on Thallon was done with sending and receiving platforms.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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They had seen matter transportation before, but most transmat on Thallon was done with sending and receiving platforms.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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They had seen matter transportation before, but most transmat on Thallon was done with sending and receiving platforms.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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They had seen matter transportation before, but most transmat on Thallon was done with sending and receiving platforms.
Star Trek® New Frontier Peter David 1997
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To make matters more disturbing your computer will be doing an excellent impression of a transmat device.
lampbane commented on the word transmat
Short for transmitter of matter or matter transmitter.
September 9, 2008