timestream
nounEtymology From time + stream.
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Human sciences, Literature, Media, Mysticism, Mythology, Philosophy, Publishing, Science fiction, Sciences A metaphorical conception of time as a stream, or flowing body of water.
- By killing his great-grandfather, the time traveller disrupted the timestream.
- The slightest excess of effort might upset the balance at any point of the time stream, sending them backward into the past or forward into the future independently of my will.[1931 December, Eric Temple Bell, “The Time Stream”, in Wonder Stories:
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- The timestream is littered with these blank areas.1983, John Varley, Millennium:
- Two different timestreams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream.2011, Tom MacRae, “The Girl Who Waited”, in Nick Hurran, director, Doctor Who, season 6, episode 10, spoken by The Doctor (Matt Smith):