To see, fixed in the rigidity of death and naked on that coarse layer of sackcloth, the man whom he had left well clad and full of meat and sin upon the threshold of a tavern, awoke, even in the thoughtless Fettes, some of the terrors of the conscience.
GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Warp speed. literally, a speed faster than the speed of light; fig., an extremely high speed, usually the fastest possible; -- used only in the figurative sense except in fiction.
It seems roughly (at least on the old scale) that warp 1 is the speed of light, warp 2 is about 10c, 3 is 100c, 4 is 1000c, etc. It should be noted that 'warp' was redefined at some point between the 23rd and 24th centuries. In TOS (and so, presumably, ENT) the scale increased at a lower rate than in TNG and onward.