transmat

See also: trans-mat

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Noun

transmat (plural transmats)

(Britain, science fiction) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
- 1959 June 1, Janifer, Laurence, “Obey that Impulse!”, in Future Science Fiction, number 43, page 40:
  One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere.
- 1970 June 1, Silverberg, Robert, “The Tower of Glass”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 30, number 3, page 83:
  Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats, heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents, […]
- 1975, Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks (Doctor Who, season 12, serial 4), opening dialogue:
  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.
- 1983, The Long Way Home (video game published with 16/48 Magazine)
  You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.
- 2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who series 1, episode 12):
  LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transmat.

Verb

transmat (third-person singular simple present transmats, present participle transmatting, simple past and past participle transmatted)

(Britain, science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.
- 1991, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Carmen Carter and Robert Greenberger, Doomsday World (Star Trek: The Next Generation; 12), Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 171:
  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.
- 1999, Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad, The Blue Angel (Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 36:
  '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.'
- 2010, Michalowski, Mark, Shining Darkness (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 17:
  Donna twisted her neck around to try to find the Doctor, but she realised that she'd been transmatted alone.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transmat.

Anagrams

Stratman

单词	transmat
释义	transmat See also: trans-mat English Etymology Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Noun transmat (plural transmats) (Britain, science fiction) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself. 1959 June 1, Janifer, Laurence, “Obey that Impulse!”, in Future Science Fiction, number 43, page 40: One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere. 1970 June 1, Silverberg, Robert, “The Tower of Glass”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 30, number 3, page 83: Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats, heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents, […] 1975, Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks (Doctor Who, season 12, serial 4), opening dialogue: 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. 1983, The Long Way Home (video game published with 16/48 Magazine) You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it. 2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who series 1, episode 12): LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transmat. Verb transmat (third-person singular simple present transmats, present participle transmatting, simple past and past participle transmatted) (Britain, science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device. 1991, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Carmen Carter and Robert Greenberger, Doomsday World (Star Trek: The Next Generation; 12), Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 171: 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. 1999, Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad, The Blue Angel (Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 36: '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.' 2010, Michalowski, Mark, Shining Darkness (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 17: Donna twisted her neck around to try to find the Doctor, but she realised that she'd been transmatted alone. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transmat. Anagrams Stratman
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