transmat

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词形变化

transmats 复数 transmats transmats 三单 transmatted transmatting transmatting 现在分词 transmatted 过去式 transmatted 过去分词

别名

trans-mat

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.

    媒体

    TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor. DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam? TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.

    You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.

    LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.

v.
  1. 1.

    To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.

    及物/不及物 媒体

词源

Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

来源:wiktionary