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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| time paradox n. (1942) | a paradox caused by an action of a time traveller which alters history so that the action is no longer logically possible, such as travelling into the past to murder a dictator which leads to a peaceful world from which the time traveller would have had no reason to depart; cf. grandfather paradox n., temporal paradox n. |
| time-path n. (1934) | = timestream n. |
| time patrol n. (1955) | = time police n. |
| time police n. (1950) | officers who travels through time to attempt to prevent the past from being changed; a governmental body that regulates time travel |
| timequake n. (1954) | a sudden significant disturbance in the continuity of time; cf. time storm n., timeslip n. |
| time radio n. (1934) | a device that allows messages (but not physical objects) to be sent across time |
| timeslip n. (1941) | a rift or flaw in the fabric of time that allows travel between two or more periods of time or timelines; any accidental or unexplained movement between periods of time; cf. timequake n., time storm n. |
| time storm n. (1942) | a disturbance in time which can bring people and things from different times into the same timeline; cf. timequake n., timeslip n. |
| timestream n. (1931) | the sequence of events in time considered notionally as a flow capable of being altered to form different timelines |
| time track n. (1942) | = timeline n. |
| time travel n. (1914) | the activity of travelling into the past or future; hypothetical movement through time n. |
| time travel v. (1933) | to travel through time n. |
| time traveller n. (1894) | one who travels through time n. |
| time-travelling n. (1894) | the activity of travelling into the past or future; hypothetical movement through time |
| time-travelling adj. (1904) | that or who travels through time n. |
| time viewer n. (1940) | = chronoscope n. |
| time warp n. (1937) | an imaginary or hypothetical distortion of space-time whereby people or objects at one point in time can be moved to another, or within which time moves at a different speed |
| time warp v. (1969) | transitive to transport (something) into the past or future, or from the past or future into the present, as if in a time warp; also intransitive with reflexive or passive meaning |
| time-warped adj. (1938) | transported from the past or future by a time warp n. |
| tin can n. (1938) | a spaceship or space station |
| Tolkienesque adj. (1967) | characteristic of or resembling J.R.R. Tolkien or his writings; cf. Tolkienian adj. |
| Tolkienian adj. (1954) | of or pertaining to J.R.R. Tolkien or his writings; cf. Tolkienesque adj. |
| topside adv. (1933) | in or towards the upper parts of a spacecraft; (also) in or towards orbit |
| torch n. (1950) | = torch drive n. |
| torch v. (1956) | to travel in a spaceship using a torch drive |
| torch drive n. (1976) | a fusion-powered, slower-than-light space drive |
| torcher n. (1953) | a pilot of a spaceship with a torch drive |