Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of removal from one locality to another; transportation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another.
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- noun archaic
transportation from one locality to another
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Examples
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What about a transportal device, with dial a moon or something, that other scientist made to go from pandora, the home base, to study all the moons?
Will Future ‘Avatar’ Movies Focus On Pandora’s Neighboring Moons? » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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But as these animals and their spawn are known to be immediately killed by sea-water, on my view we can see that there would be great difficulty in their transportal across the sea, and therefore why they do not exist on any oceanic island.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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But as these animals and their spawn are known to be immediately killed by sea-water, on my view we can see that there would be great difficulty in their transportal across the sea, and therefore why they do not exist on any oceanic island.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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But as these animals and their spawn are known to be immediately killed by sea-water, on my view we can see that there would be great difficulty in their transportal across the sea, and therefore why they do not exist on any oceanic island.
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But as these animals and their spawn are known to be immediately killed by sea-water, on my view we can see that there would be great difficulty in their transportal across the sea, and therefore why they do not exist on any oceanic island.
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The connection between the transportal of boulders and the presence of ice in some form, is strikingly shown by their geographical distribution over the earth.
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In South America they are not found farther than 48° of latitude, measured from the southern pole; in North America it appears that the limit of their transportal extends to 53½° from the northern pole; but in Europe to not more than 40° of latitude, measured from the same point.
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In the former edition and Appendix, I have given some facts on the transportal of erratic boulders and icebergs in the Antarctic Ocean.
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Under these circumstances it is, I believe, quite impossible to explain the transportal of these gigantic masses of rock so many miles from their parent-source, on any theory except by that of floating icebergs.
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The only light which I can throw on this remarkable difference in the inhabitants of the different islands is that very strong currents of the sea running in a westerly and W.N.W. direction must separate, as far as transportal by the sea is concerned, the southern islands from the northern ones; and between these northern islands a strong N.W. current was observed, which must effectually separate James and Albemarle Islands.
qroqqa commented on the word transportal
On the Transportal of Erratic Boulders from a lower to a higher level
—title of article by Charles Darwin, 1848, J. Geological Soc.
February 17, 2009