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jump drive

n. 1 (context computing English) A flash drive. 2 (context science fiction English) A means of travelling faster than light by jumping from one point to another in space.

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Jump drive

A jump drive is a speculative method of traveling faster than light (FTL) in science fiction. Related concepts are hyperdrive, warp drive and interstellar teleporter. The key characteristic of a jump drive (as the term is usually used) is that it allows a starship to be instantaneously teleported between two points. A jump drive is supposed to make a spaceship (or any matter) go from one point in space to another point, which may be several light years away, in a single instant. Like time travel, a jump drive is often taken for granted in science fiction, but very few science fiction works talk about the mechanics behind a jump drive. There are vague indications of the involvement of tachyons and the space-time continuum in some works.

Usage examples of "jump drive".

The body of the jump drive, as the pilot and his viral control circuitry was its nervous system, was the pair of Necklin field generator rods that ran from one end of the ship to the other.

What we've got here, it seems to me, is that old standby of science fiction, the instantaneous-jump drive.

Anyone with access to the corpse and the ability to find where Bony Tony had hidden the jump drive would have been good enough for Grevane.

She shoved the jump drive off and sent _The Pride_ into an axis roll, canceled _G_ and threw the mains on to finish the job the drive had failed.