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.
Warp factor was the primary means of measuring speeds attained using warp drive. An alternative term time-warp factor was also used. (TOS: The Cage) The term was often shortened to warp when followed by its value, so that saying warp six is the same as saying warp factor six..