transmat

Etymology
Attested since the 1950s, from or  and ; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series .

Noun

 * 1)  A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
 * 2) * 1975, Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks (Doctor Who, season 12, serial 4), opening dialogue:
 * TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor.
 * DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam?
 * TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.
 * 1) * 1983, The Long Way Home (video game published with 16/48 Magazine)
 * You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.
 * 1) * 2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who series 1, episode 12):
 * LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.
 * 1) * 2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who series 1, episode 12):
 * LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.

Verb

 * 1)  To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.