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 speed could be a reality in the next 100 years: Star Trek-like travel between galaxies is possible, claims astrophysicist. Warp speed space travel that will allow us to travel between galaxies could be a reality in the next 100 years. This is according to Professor Geraint Lewis, from the University of Sydney, who claims the idea of warp speed is, in theory, possible. He claims the futurist concept was part of Einstein's theory of relativity, which describes how we can bend space and time.