gate n.

The purple circle that came in front of the plane looked just like that… We have seen the gate to our world opened again—I am sure of it.

The hidden cults to which these witches belonged often guarded and handed down surprising secrets from elder, forgotten eons; and it was by no means impossible that Keziah had actually mastered the art of passing through dimensional gates.

I discovered in my time a sort of gateway to your time, and to seventeen other nearly synchronous moments, set up by a scientist unknown to me. Each of the gates seems to open upon one single specific instant. For instance: before I fell into the one which brought me here, I saw a figure I’m sure was yours. And it was motionless above the city, all the time that I was watching it.

Ron did not glance at the statue; he looked at the gates. It was late afternoon and heavily overcast at east coast North America, but gate one was open to some planetary spot having glaring noonday sun; Rod could catch glimpses through it of men dressed in shorts and sun hats and nothing else. Gate number two had a pressure lock rigged over it; it carried a big skull & crossbones sign and the symbol for chlorine.

It was extremely expensive in terms of uranium to keep an interstellar gate open and the people in this wagon train could expect to be out of commercial touch with Earth until such a time as they had developed surpluses valuable enough in trade to warrant reopening the gate at regular intervals.

Then he would have to find the gate that would give entrance to the pocket universe.

Meanwhile I use old Quequex' useful notion of a Gate of Worlds. With eyes closed I stand at that Gate, seeing past the golden radiance into other worlds of maybe. I see a world in which Takinaktu and I did not quarrel at the end, but sailed to Africa together.

The Star Gate opened. The Star Gate closed. In a moment of time, too short to be measured, Space turned and twisted upon itself.

Passage through a major space gate was only a shock of shifting gravities and a wink of suspended sensation, but the one-way, one-person terminal on the Earth probe hadn’t been engineered for comfort.

The cultural setup in FW postulates a system of gates from world to world, and an elite body of specialists that maintains them, the Imperial Corps of Engineers.

Since you are Chief of Snatch Team Operations, someone at the Gate had the foolish notion you could be of help straightening it out.

The class in ‘Advanced Survival’ is taking their final exam, but Rod and his class fail to return to earth, as the ‘gate’ through which they went for the test failed to work.

There’s not much to do up here except keep the ship ticking over until the supply ship comes through the gate. We're not expecting them for another month and a half.

Shutting down such a link resulted in all the absorbed energy exploding from one gate…in the form of a blast wave of subatomic particles forced from the quantum foam.

Even steaders like me knew the basics of space travel. In order to cross vast distances, you had to use a special stardrive to punch your way through a local Gate. Each Gate only connected to a handful of nearby ones, so voyages could involve a lot of hopping.