TELEPORTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teleportation mean? 

• TELEPORTATION (noun)
  The noun TELEPORTATION has 1 sense:

1. a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another

  Familiarity information: TELEPORTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEPORTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("teleportation" is a kind of...):

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)

Domain category:

science fiction (literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society)

Derivation:

teleport (transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another)

 Context examples 

The flagship demonstration was a two-chip teleportation experiment, whereby the individual quantum state of a particle is transmitted across the two chips after a quantum measurement is performed.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In one of the experiments with the chips, described as a breakthrough, the researchers were able to demonstrate the quantum teleportation of information between two programmable devices for the very first time using a physical process known as quantum entanglement.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)