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trans-mat

trans-mat is the alternative spelling of transmat.

Meaning of transmat

Noun

transmat (plural transmats)

  1. (UK) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
    • One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere.1959 June, Laurence Janifer, “Obey that Impulse!”, in Future Science Fiction, number 43, page 40

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Forms of trans-mat

pluraltrans-mats

Questions about trans-mat

What is trans-mat the alternative spelling of?
Trans-mat is the alternative spelling of transmat.

Words near trans-mat in the dictionary

  1. trans-male
  2. trans-males
  3. trans-Mars injection
  4. trans-Mars injections
  5. trans-Martian
  6. trans-mat
  7. trans-mats
  8. trans-misogynist
  9. trans-misogynistic
  10. trans-misogynists
  11. trans-mountain

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