Meaning

1 senses
  1. A fictional instrument required to operate a time machine, consisting of a rectangular-shaped compartment with three flashing Geissler-style tubes arranged in a "Y" configuration.

    Fluxkompensator

    конденсатор потокаkondensator potoka

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the device that enables time travel:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the device that enables time travel:

Origin

First seen in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension in 1984 and in th

First seen in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension in 1984 and in the 1985 American science fiction film Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis, in which a DMC DeLorean vehicle is retrofitted with a flux capacitor to create a time travel device.

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Forms

plural: flux capacitors
Singularflux capacitor
Pluralflux capacitors

regular

See also

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