TIME CAPSULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time capsule mean? 

• TIME CAPSULE (noun)
  The noun TIME CAPSULE has 1 sense:

1. container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time

  Familiarity information: TIME CAPSULE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME CAPSULE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("time capsule" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

 Context examples 

Though the sample will be small – only a couple of pounds at most – it will be a time capsule of sorts recording our solar system's creation.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

Remains of food and other materials left in caves inhabited by pack rats which are preserved and serve as a "time capsule" of the vegetation of the time and, by extension, the climate.

(Pack rat middens, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)