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.
The original warp scale was described in the writer's guide, The Star Trek Guide, (third revision, pg. 8) as a set of warp factors and multiples of lightspeed that can be obtained by raising a warp factor to the third power. [3] . This information appeared in widespread print in The Making of Star Trek (1968, pg. 191).