time traveln.
/ˈtʌɪm ˌtravl/, U.S. /ˈtaɪm ˌtrævəl/ Chiefly Science Fiction.
The imagined or hypothetical activity of travelling into the past or future. Also in extended use (cf. time traveller n. 2, time travelling n. 2).
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1914 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 11 524 But now appears the hardship in time-travel. If real time is the course of natural events, then the tourist who traverses that time traverses history.
1931 C. D. Simak in Wonder Stories Dec. 879/2 They had thought of only one thing, time travel.
1953 A. C. Clarke Prelude to Space (rev. ed.) xxvi. 137 That lurid magazine..that goes in for hyperspace time-travel.
1975 G. Ewart Be my Guest! i. 23 Belief in Time Travel and supernatural facilities.
2005 M. Lockwood Labyrinth of Time (2007) xv. 329 The idea is that Nature has her own ways of keeping at bay such situations as would allow time travel at a macroscopic scale.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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