hyperdrive
(in science fiction) a mode or function of a spaceship’s engine that enables it to travel at speeds faster than light, typically by moving through hyperspace: Sabotage caused the robot to accelerate the spacecraft into hyperdrive.In the movie, they had to activate the hyperdrive to keep their spaceship from falling into the sun.
overdrive: Monsoon is the season when all of India goes into sowing-planting-growing hyperdrive.
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How to use hyperdrive in a sentence
In a world on permanent hyperdrive, the pressure to succeed in your career will come from everywhere.
Read Jon Favreau’s Full Commencement Address to College of the Holy Cross | Jon Favreau | May 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere aren't a dozen and a half planets in the Old Federation that still have hyperdrive, and they're all civilized.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperEach of them had its own hyperdrive engines, and could travel as far and as fast as the ship herself.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperGadolinium was essential to hyperdrive engines; the engines of a ship the size of the Nemesis required fifty pounds of it.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperAnd the Cavour hyperdrive was the merest will-o'-the-wisp, dancing wildly before him in his dreams.
Starman's Quest | Robert Silverberg
Suddenly he saw the reason for Captain Donnell's abrupt growth of interest in the development of a hyperdrive.
Starman's Quest | Robert Silverberg
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