timeslip
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timeslip (plural timeslips)
- A timesheet.
- 1937, US National Railroad Adjustment Board, Awards:
- Fireman Iver Peterson, whom Fireman Cunningham displaced, also submitted a timeslip claiming 100 miles for deadheading...
- 1970, Management Accounting:
- Every train crew fills out a timeslip that contains sufficient information with which to compute the crew's hourly wage rate.
- 1990, Menu International Software, The Software Catalog: Microcomputers, Winter, 1990:
- Change a timeslip into an 'expense-slip' to track costs.
- (science fiction) A phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel.
- 1996, Rebecca A Umland, The use of Arthurian legend in Hollywood film:
- In any case, neither Morris nor Adeler used a timeslip like Twain.
- 1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy:
- And, although not in a timeslip tale, the horse protagonist of Richard Adams's Traveler (1988) is a creature inherently bound to General Lee...
- 2002, Melissa Scott, The Garden:
- For an instant, she felt as though she were caught in a timeslip — her crew suffering from scurvy, the transporter a significant advantage...
- 2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge companion to science fiction:
- He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper (1948) uses a timeslip to explain a mysterious actual event summarized in the story's prologue...
- 2007, Dominic Head, Ian McEwan:
- In an apparently fantastic moment, Stephen experiences a timeslip that enables him to secure his own existence.