Meanings
plural chronoportations
- uncountableusuallyAny of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one temporal (and possibly spatial) point to another, generally instantaneously.
1988:Robert Crossley, introduction to Kindred by Octavia Butler Perhaps Butler deliberately sacrificed the neat closure that a scientific--or even pseudo-scientific--explanation of telekinesis and chronoportation would have given her novel.
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1961: Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Volume 67, Issue 4, "The Judas Bug" by Kelly Freas Too bad that chronoportation is not yet fully developed. If it were, we could go back and perhaps help the old professor figure out a gimmick for storing his universal solvent.
- uncountableusuallyA technique to send one's mind to another time.
Origin
Coined from chrono- + teleportation.
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chronoportation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chronoportation
“chronoportation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chronoportation. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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