transmat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere."
- "Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats, heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents, […]"
- "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."
- "It wasn't far enough away to think about transmatting and besides, that was no longer a viable option, what with vandals having wrecked some of the booths in the area."
Etymology
Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Usage
- British usage