hyperdrive

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With awards season about to go into hyperdrive, the shortlist for the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award brought some early cheer for five of movieworld's top up-and-comers when it was revealed in London today.

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  1. noun A fictional device allowing a spaceship to travel faster than the speed of light, especially by passing through hyperspace.
  2. noun Informal A state of heightened activity or concentration.

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  • She sent him a look that jammed his libido into hyperdrive, slowly licked her lips, and then leaned over the arm of her chair to lightly run that naughty tongue over his lips. —  One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze
  • Their initial speed was a smooth fifteen lightyears per hour, near the limit for a hyperdrive, which the sophisticated Lytham planetary spacewatch network could track out to a couple of lightyears. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
  • When a new hyperdrive is developed (some good stuff here) a gang of old salts gets finance to travel through McDevitt's back pages (this is volume seven of the very loose Priscilla Hutchins sequence) to various star systems where previous novels had focused. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • Even a hyperdrive will be built out of metals mined the old-fashioned way, and controlled by electronics bought off the shelf Despite my veneration of Einstein, the three physicists I actually based Dykstra upon are Isaac Newton, Richard Feynman, and Nikola Tesla. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
  • Wolruf tells me the Erani hyperdrive is fantastically unstable, and that being in the engine room of their ship is almost as dangerous as being on the wrong end of their guns Avery interrupted. —  Maverick, Isaac Asimov's Robots And Aliens -- Book 5
 

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