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n. 1 (context physics science fiction English) a technological device that warps spacetime to enable movement through space in a non-Newtonian manner 2 (context science fiction English) an engine that allows a vessel to travel faster-than-light by manipulating spacetime to bypass Einstein's restrictive light barrier
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Warp Drive is a short street in Dulles, Virginia, United States. It is located in an industrial park off Atlantic Boulevard, and primarily serves as the address for Orbital ATK, a company that makes rocket engines for the U.S. military. The street ends at a circle where an off-ramp from Virginia State Highway 28 joins from the opposite direction.
Originally named Steeplechase Drive, the street was renamed in 2011 at the request of the company. The managers at Orbital were avid fans of Star Trek and wanted an address that reflected that. They requested that the Loudoun County supervisors vote to rename their street after the warp drive that allows ships in the Star Trek universe to travel faster than light. The supervisors voted to do so unanimously, several of them using catchphrases associated with the franchise as they did so.
Usage examples of "warp drive".
On the bridge, the reverberation of the warp drive underscored the lack of voices.
I know I got a commendation for that, and everyone talks about how heroic I was for getting the warp drive back on-line and then recalibrating our shields and warp signature so the Breen thought we were Cardassian—.
The giant who had invented warp drive for humanity and led the way to the stars.
We can continue to put all warp power to the containment system, which will hold for only about another four hours, or we can transfer the power to the warp drive&mdash.
Troi thought rapidly, trying to come up with some rationale that would appeal to Data's sense of duty, anything that would prevent him from telling Srelal about the hyper-warp drive.
The bleeps and whirrs, the soft hum of warp drive, the twinkle of systems constantly diagnosing themselves.
Employing warp drive this deep in a planetary gravity well carried a risk, to be sure, but incidents rarely occurred.
The titans pursued us at top speed, darting ahead on warp drive and rushing us, only to be driven back by Tyler's phaser fire.
We can continue to put all warp power to the containment system, which will hold for only about another four hours, or we can transfer the power to the warp drive- all of it-but I don't see a way to do both.
Spock One, do you agree that whoever had the computer take us off warp drive wanted the Enterprise detected by the Klingons?
I discard as irrelevant the effect of our warp drive as a cause for these changes.