transmat

plural transmats · alternative trans-mat

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

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

   2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who series 1, episode 12)

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   One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere.

   1959 June 28, Laurence Janifer, “Obey that Impulse!”, in Future Science Fiction, number 43, page 40

   Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats, heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents, […]

   1970 June 28, Robert Silverberg, “The Tower of Glass”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 30, number 3, page 83

   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.

   1975, Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks (Doctor Who, season 12, serial 4), opening dialogue

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

   1983, The Long Way Home (video game published with 16/48 Magazine)

present singular third person transmats · participle present transmatting · participle past transmatted · past transmatted · alternative trans-mat

1. UKambitransitiveliteratureTo teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.

   Donna twisted her neck around to try to find the Doctor, but she realised that she'd been transmatted alone.

   2010, Mark Michalowski, Shining Darkness (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 17

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   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.

   1991, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Carmen Carter, Robert Greenberger, Doomsday World (Star Trek: The Next Generation; 12), Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 171

   'No, you're not,' Blandish put in smoothly 'You're transmatting down with me. I'll head the away team and I'll consent to let you advise.'

   1999, Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad, The Blue Angel (Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 36