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time machine

noun

  1. a theoretical apparatus that would convey one to the past or future.


time machine

noun

  1. (in science fiction) a machine in which people or objects can be transported into the past or the future
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of time machine1

First recorded in 1890–95
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By doing so, the grandfather won’t have the chance to invent the time machine nor meet the grandmother, so the boy’s father and therefore the boy himself won’t be born.

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And so tennis courts became a kind of time machine.

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Seeing the series of dance works about Louisa May Alcott’s beloved 19th century novel is like stepping into a time machine.

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As contemporary Angelenos, seeing the immersive “Little Women Ballet” might be as close as we’ll ever get to stepping into a time machine.

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The trial was fresh in memory when the DMC-12 — equipped with the mysterious “flux capacitor”— served as a time machine in the 1985 hit “Back to the Future,” enshrining it in pop culture.

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