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 is supposedly faster than the speed of light, I think...   So warp speed is faster than impulse speed.   Warp v. Impulse   Warp speed, as above, is faster than light, whereas impulse speed is used to move around within a sector of space. Warp speed is much, much faster.   Actual Speed Differential   According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, which uses the Okuda warp scale, impulse speed is 1/4 lightspeed, or 270 million km/h. Warp 1 is lightspeed, or 1078 million km/h. Any warp factor is considerably faster than impulse (or sublight) engines.