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  • adjective Faster than light speed.

Etymologies

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hyper- +‎ light

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Examples

  • Admiral Cain ordered the ship to make a blind hyperlight jump to escape the attack.

    Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far Adam Whitehead 2009

  • I would be able to cast its hyperlight into the fourth dimension, see the objects around me as the flat things they really were, reach through walls, open locks, walk through windows ...

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Perhaps, just perhaps, the hyperlight theories would be their passport.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • "Blasting the fleet into hyperlight wasn't a good start with us, either," Shannon said.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • It would take months for rescue ships to complete a hyperlight transit cycle.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • The hyperlight was dim a meter from the cabinet; it was sixteen times more dim at two meters; eighty-one times more dim at three.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • I can't see into the new directions without the hyperlight it gives off.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Overpressure shields were penetrated, and hyperlight generators are seriously damaged.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • No noises from subspace, no ripples of hyperlight thudding through skew planes.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Buccari was not proud of her disingenuous replies; both she and Hudson were extremely knowledgeable of hyperlight theories and applied algorithms, but information represented power, and they needed to marshal what little power was available to them.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

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