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.
Middle Low German warp, Old High German warf warp, Old Norse varp cast of a net), from root *werp- (see warp (v.)). The warp of fabric is that across which the woof is thrown.. Applied in 20c. astrophysics to the fabric of space-time, popularized in noun phrase warp speed by 1960s TV series Star Trek..