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teleportable en · ADJ

Etymology

From teleport + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Able to be teleported.
    • The great silver, marble, and sapphire dome of the Last Planetary Government is teleportable to any place on the planet so the Final Seven Presidents may choose any locale conducive to government on the one day every four years they meet to tend to the business of governing the world. 2009, Eric Paul Shaffer, Burn & Learn, Or, Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era, page 172:
  2. (not-comparable) Found in a nonstandard setting but still valid.
    • Minutes before midnight on May 26, President Obama, in France, by a species of teleportable pen signed into law a four-year extension of the Patriot Act: the central domestic support of the security apparatus devised by the Bush administration, after the bombings of 11 September 2001 and the “anthrax letters” a week later. 2014, Seumas Miller, Ian A. Gordon, Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators: