Crossword clues for transporter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transporter \Trans*port"er\, n. One who transports.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which transports. 2 # A long truck or lorry for carrying vehicles. 3 # A type of crane for loading or unloading a ship. 4 # A conveyor belt that transports objects in a factory etc. 5 # (cx scifi English) A device that instantaneously transports, or teleports, a person or object. 6 (cx biochemistry English) A carrier.
WordNet
n. a long truck for carrying motor vehicles [syn: car transporter]
a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships
a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) [syn: conveyer belt, conveyor belt, conveyer, conveyor]
Wikipedia
A transporter is a fictional teleportation machine used in the Star Trek universe. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called dematerialization), then "beam" it to a target, where it is reconverted into matter (rematerialization). The term transporter accident is a catch-all term for when a person or object does not rematerialize correctly.
According to The Making of Star Trek, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's original plan did not include transporters, instead calling for characters to land the starship itself. However, this would have required unfeasible and unaffordable sets and model filming, as well as episode running time spent while landing, taking off, etc. The shuttlecraft was the next idea, but when filming began, the full-sized shooting model was not ready. Transporters were devised as a less expensive alternative, achieved by a simple fade-out/fade-in of the subject. Transporters first appear in the original pilot episode "The Cage". The transporter special effect, before being done using computer animation, was created by turning a slow-motion camera upside down and photographing some backlit shiny grains of aluminium powder that were dropped between the camera and a black background.
Gene Roddenberry in 1964 had not seen The Fly upon his first draft of "The Cage", but it was brought to his attention, and this is how the transporter was considered.
According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, the three touch-sensitive light-up bars on the Enterprise-D's transporter console were an homage to the three sliders used on the duotronic transporter console on the original Enterprise in The Original Series.
In August 2008, physicist Michio Kaku predicted in Discovery Channel Magazine that a teleportation device similar to those in Star Trek would be invented within 100 years.
Transporter may refer to:
- Transporter (vehicles), types of vehicles designed to transport items
- Transporter wagon, a railway car designed to carry another railway car
- Volkswagen Transporter, a model of van
- Transporter bridge, a bridge which carries cars across a river in a suspended gondola
- Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, the transporter bridge in Middlesbrough, England
Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is an English-language French film franchise, comprising four films released between 2002 and 2015, and a television series. Jason Statham plays Frank Martin in the first three movies, a professional freelance courier driver for hire. Statham himself is an accomplished martial artist, allowing him to do all the combat scenes involving Frank Martin himself. This permits the films' signature Hong Kong-style fight scenes, choreographed by Corey Yuen. Chris Vance portrays Frank Martin in the television series and Ed Skrein portrays Frank Martin in the fourth film, a reboot.
Usage examples of "transporter".
The Mandant stood in the crowded chamber, watching humans come and go via transporter.
Wriede, have Lieutenant Peart assemble a boarding party in transporter room one.
Kirk held his breath, waiting for his guess to be wrong, waiting for solid rock to resolidify around him forever as soon as the transporter beam ended.
Though its intensity is slackening, the present level of sunspot activity prevents our use of the particle transporter.
Having a force of nature working against you-in this case the lethal sunspot interference in the transporter beam-was infinitely worse than twenty-twenty hindsight.
Lieutenant Barclay is checking the modifications to the diagnostic biofilter, and he believes the transporter will be ready for you within the next couple hours.
However, the biofilter will be inoperational, and targeting scanners may not be capable of creating a transporter lock.
True to her word, Wilder, wherever she had been, had accessed the biofilter data from the transporter and reviewed it.
He would just have to count on the biofilters in the transporters to do their job.
Then came the inch-by-inch demagnetization of the transporter, with Kathryn and the other cadets scanning the pads on their knees.
The Elysian transporter effect pulsed around Data, and in a moment he was standing, off balance, on one of the tilted rocks littering the beach below the mountain.
He would put an access denial code on it, of course, but- The Elysian transporter effect began to pulse around Data.
I distinctly recall noting its ethnocentricity in naming the transporter for the human god Janus rather than the Vulcan goddess Yelanna.
Against the opposite wall were more of the same growing-from-the-floor consoles with footwells in front of them that the away team had attempted to examine in the main transporter room.
With that, everyone took their positions and the transporter chief sent them to the Iconian vessel.