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.
Starfleet Legacy Alliance. warp Speed Chart. In the year 2063 humanity broke the warp barrior when Zefram Cochrane launched the Phoenix and flew at the speed of light. Since that time Earth, and later the Federation, continued to develop faster Warp engines. By the late 24th Century a few starships were able to travel at speeds matching 9.999, allowing Starfleet to explore even further into the unknown. This section gives a general guideline on Warp speed conversion as offered by the Star Trek Encyclopedia.