Teletransporter

A teletransporter or teleporter is a device which allows for transportation of matter from one point to another distant one without actual travel in between.

There are two main types of teleporters in science fiction. The most common, popularized in the Star Trek universe and used in most of the spaceships appearing on it, disintegrates an object in the starting point and transmits information about how to reconstruct it to another point. The second type creates a wormhole between departure and destination in such a way that the time to travel is drastically shortened and, sometimes, becomes instantaneous. The best known example is the Stargate.