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time capsule en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A sealed container, buried at a specific location, that contains records of contemporary life, to be rediscovered in the distant future.
   • Rail Minister Lord Hendy has placed a time capsule at Ravensthorpe, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) project. Hendy was joined by Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, local schoolchildren and TRU apprentices at the burial of the time capsule, which will sit under foundations of a new viaduct. 2025 March 19, “News in pictures: Time capsule buried at Ravensthorpe”, in RAIL, number 1031, page 29, photo caption:
2. (figuratively) An object, place, or collection that encapsulates and preserves the characteristics, culture or essence of a particular time period, usually due to isolation or some specific external influence.
   • As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support. 2011, Francis Tapon, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us, page 135:

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memory box

Translations (39)

cmn 時代縮影 /时代缩影 (something reflecting an historical setting) · fa کپسول زمان (sealed container) · ar كپسول زمان (sealed container) · eo tempa kapsulo (sealed container) · da tidskapsel (sealed container) · ja タイムカプセル (sealed container) · cmn 時間膠囊 /时间胶囊 (sealed container) · et ajakapsel (sealed container) · tr zaman kapsülü (sealed container) · de Zeitkapsel (sealed container) · pl kapsuła czasu (sealed container) · it capsula del tempo (sealed container) · sv tidskapsel (sealed container) · he קפסולת זמן (sealed container) · es caja del tiempo (sealed container) · ko 타임캡슐 (sealed container) · id kapsul waktu (sealed container) · th แคปซูลกาลเวลา (sealed container) · pt cápsula do tempo (sealed container) · es cápsula temporal (sealed container) · bg капсула на времето (sealed container) · cs časová kapsle (sealed container) · es cápsula del tiempo (sealed container) · ms kapsul masa (sealed container) · cs časová schránka (sealed container) · yue 時間囊 /时间囊 (sealed container) · fr capsule temporelle (sealed container) · ca càpsula del temps (sealed container) · no tidskapsel (sealed container) · az zaman kapsulu (sealed container) · fi aikakapseli (sealed container) · hu időkapszula (sealed container) · ru временная капсула (sealed container) · cmn 時間囊 /时间囊 (sealed container) · fi aikakapseli (something reflecting an historical setting) · ru ка́псула вре́мени (sealed container) · uk часова капсула (sealed container) · nl tijdcapsule (sealed container) · cmn 歷史遺存 /历史遗存 (something reflecting an historical setting)