antitelephone

noun

Etymology

From anti- + telephone.

  1. borrowed from téléphone — “kind of megaphone; system of communication using musical notes
  2. derived from *bʰeh₂- — “to say; to speak
  3. derived from φωνή — “sound; voice
  4. derived from *kʷelh₁- — “to turn end-over-end; to revolve around; hence, to dwell, sojourn
  5. derived from τῆλε — “afar, far away, far off
  6. prefixed as antitelephone — “anti + telephone

Definitions

  1. A hypothetical device, used in thought experiments on causality, that could be used to…

    A hypothetical device, used in thought experiments on causality, that could be used to send signals into one's own past.

The neighborhood

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