teleportation
- n a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another
- Though the technology appears to straddle the line between science and science fiction, the era of quantum teleportation has arrived.
- Quantum teleportation, in short, is the transmission of characteristicsthat is, the quantum state of a particular photon, or particle of lightfrom one place to another.
- A TV network willingly giving up eight minutes of ads per hour? We thought we'd live to see teleportation first.