Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. science fiction A jump that transports some physical object immediately from one place to another, as by a hyperdrive or jump drive.
- n. mathematics, logic A form of Turing jump in hyperarithmetic
Etymologies
- hyper- + jump (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We had not foreseen that the strangers would be able to harness our ship to their own, as happened in the case of the K-7, and to perform a hyperjump together.”
“Since it was a transition-type vessel it could not fly faster than the speed of light on a straight line of sight but had to traverse vast distances by the usual means of the hyperjump.”
“In open transition, all the ships made a hyperjump in the direction of Terra.”
“Rhodan manages the hyperjump in the Arkonide space sphere.”
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“He lost the Australian shortly after relinquishing his bag, but Maté Perez-Salazar seemed to cling to his peripheral vision like a berm-runner on an illegal hyperjump.”
“I think I could gimmick a small ship (if he'll give us one) and hyperjump us to Earth.”
“Jeff, if you and Norby want to link minds with the Hopeful's computer and hyperjump us with the Jamyn ship, I'm willing.”
“But after the first hyperjump of only 4,000 light-years I was compelled to send the 3 commanders home again.”
“At the beginning of the flight the cosmonauts had not made any complicated hyperjump calculations with all their associated chances for error.”
“Rhodan's orders stirred up the other members of the crew who were leaning back in contour chairs or holding fast to table edges, trying to overcome the shock of hyperjump.”
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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