What is "time warp"

n. 1 (context science fiction English) a hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would move events from one time period to another 2 A line dance popularized by the movie ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rocky%20Horror%20Picture%20Show'', in which the dancers take a jump to the left, a step to the right, put their hands on their hips, bend their knees, thrust their pelvises, spin in a circle, jump forward and back, and wiggle.

"The Time Warp" is a song featured in the 1973 rock musical The Rocky Horror Show and in its 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as well as a dance performed during the chorus of the song. The song is both an example and a parody of the dance song genre in which much of the content of the song is given over to dance step instructions. The dance is one of the major audience-participation activities during screenings of the film and performances of the show. It has become a popular song beyond the reaches of the film and show, and is often played at dances and weddings.

The song is in the key of A major.

Time Warp is an album released by Chick Corea in 1995.

A time warp is a hypothetical, rather than fictitious, change in the continuum of space-time, such as in time dilation or contraction.

Time Warp may also refer to:

In science fiction:

• Time warp (science fiction)

In music:

• "Time Warp" (song), from The Rocky Horror Show
• Time Warp (album), a jazz album by Chick Corea
• "Time Warp", an instrumental track that appeared as a B-side on Eddy Grant's 1983 single " Electric Avenue"
• "Timewarp", a single by Sub Focus

In entertainment:

• Time Warp (TV series), a popular science television program
• Time Warp (comics), a comic book series published by DC Comics in 1980 and 2013
• Time Warp (festival), an electronic music festival
• Time Warp with Bill St. James (Radio series), a popular weekly syndicated Classic Rock show.

In science:

• Time warping, the property that the timing of a sequence of events may not be regular, addressed in computational sequence comparisons via a dynamic programming algorithm.

Time Warp is a popular science-themed television program produced for the Discovery Channel in the United States, in which Jeff Lieberman, an MIT scientist, teacher, and artist, along with high speed camera expert Matt Kearney, use their high speed camera to examine everyday occurrences and singular talents.

Time Warp captured common everyday events and viewed them again in slow motion to uncover the many principles of physics. To do so, they examined things such as a drop of water, explosions (many of them), gunshots, ballet dancing, cornflour, shallow water diving, X games and sometimes some uncanny things like piercing one's cheek or standing on blades.

The high speed cameras were used at as low as 500 frame/second for capturing how dogs drink to as high as 40,000 frame/second for capturing bullets, breaking glass, etc. Speeds above 20,000 frame/second were shot in black and white as the amount of light needed to record in black and white is significantly lower than what's needed to record in color.

Time Warp (formerly Tomb Raider: The Ride) is a flying roller coaster operating at Canada's Wonderland. It opened on May 2, 2004. Its theme featured the 2003 Paramount Pictures film Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.

Time Warp is the name of a science fiction American comic book series published by DC Comics for five issues from 1979 to 1980. A Time Warp one-shot was published by Vertigo in May 2013.