designating or relating to a matter transmitter n.
The matter-transmitting apparatus was hopelessly wrecked; the radio set partially so.
You built the matter-transmitting and receiving station on earth that was the one thing needed for our plan.
Any other creature of the moon…that might have been brought with her on the matter-transmitting beam.
This novel…concerns rival corporate space mining enterprises which routinely utilize matter-transmitting devices.
Men are being mysteriously murdered by a vengeful madman known as ‘the Telegian’, who uses a matter transmitting device to find his intended victims no matter where they hide.
‘What you see before you is the experimental prototype of Oddfellow’s Matter Transmitting Device.’ ‘A teleport?’ ‘That’s what it was supposed to be, only something catastrophic occurred.’ Oddfellow seemed to peer past Ulysses, taking in the others gathered within the cellar-lab, before adding, ‘A spanner in the works, you might say.’
antedating 1925
Ralph Milne Farley, in Argosy
In the OED with an earliest cite of 1932.
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