Sentence examples for temporal displacement device from inspiring English sources

After putzing around, they discover that this is a would-be prototype for a temporal displacement device.

His strategies were various, from an attempt to recuperate classical tragedy and its even deeper sources in Western mythology to the deployment of a panoply of Modernist devices: fragmentation, temporal displacement, doppelgangers and other personae, authorial interventions.

A sense of eeriness came over me, a moment of temporal displacement.

Because that's another worthy approach to temporal displacement: the do-gooder package tour, the warn-Pompeii-kill-Hitler itinerary.

Perhaps this is because steampunk, despite its obsession with kit, boasts a great many feisty heroines who are handy with a wrench or a Temporal Displacement Occulator.

I picked this up with a slight sense of temporal displacement – a perfect state of mind in which to read a collection of short stories from the winner of the 2009 World Fantasy Award (for the brilliantly surreal Tender Morsels).

Like his scripts for "21 Grams" and "Babel," this one makes heavy use of happenstance and temporal displacement, and like them, too, it depends on ideas about human behavior that can only be called preposterous.

Using optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, myopia has been found to be associated with temporal displacement and thinning of the superior and inferior nerve fiber layer bundles.

A less expensive but less effective way to save water with an older toilet is to install a displacement device in the water tank.

Three mediating factors influence whether overlapping diets and habitat actually results in resource sharing: spatial displacement, selective grazing, and temporal displacement.

One prong was connected to a force displacement transducer attached to a computer for continuous registration of isometric tension and the other to a displacement device.