flux capacitor

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Noun === flux capacitor (plural flux capacitors) (science fiction) 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. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flux capacitor. ==== Related terms ==== lateral flux capacitor ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === DeLorean time machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia