Definitions
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- noun fiction A
person whoteleports . - noun fiction A
device used forteleporting . - noun A (often truck-mounted) lift for reaching heights, a
cherry picker .
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Examples
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I want to know where the darned teleporter is – boy, I’d love to just step on the pad and end up across the Atlantic a second or two later.
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While some equipment - such as teleporter support for your commander - is very useful, most of the time weapon upgrades don't seem to make much difference in combat.
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Another thing - Designation X where have we heard this before, isn't that Jude or is it more like the teleporter?
Branded By Fire Spoiler Thread Nalini Singh 2009
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One story that I read a few years back had characters discovering they had powers and just going crazy (i.e., a firestarter just started to set things on fire, the teleporter ended up going from her house to Texas to Brazil in over the course of half a minute, etc.).
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » D’s Review Forum 2009
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Each level has a diamond-shaped teleporter exit somewhere in the maze that must be activated by touching the green controller icon found elsewhere.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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"A team in the US has built a teleporter capable of sending the state of ytterbium ions from one side of the lab to the other; something that until now had only been possible with photons."
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When the teleporter was invented everyone cried the soul was being lost.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Teleportation is nearly the same as running full speed soemwhere, so teleporting far tires you out, (as was previously mentioned) either places you have been before or somewhere in your immediate area … Also, when teleporting (Very scietnific now though) your teleporter has to teleport himself, his supply of oxygen and about everything in his immediate area (five centimeters of his body?) and as he arrives, displace the air space he will arrive in.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Is teleportation overpowered? 2009
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As the blinding light of the teleporter dimmed, Sarin knew she was in trouble.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The teleporter tells Jack that Luthor Cage looks after his own, then vanishes.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Sandman’s Review Forum 2009
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