Meaning

2 senses
  1. A spaceship engine that allows faster-than-light travel by entering hyperspace.

    The ship's hyperdrive had failed, leaving them stranded years from any repair base.

  2. A state of accelerated action.

    With enemies closing in fast, our hero's mind sprung into hyperdrive.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom kicked the engine into hyperdrive.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Proto-West Germanic *drīban

Proto-West Germanic *drīban

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Forms

plural: hyperdrives
Singularhyperdrive
Pluralhyperdrives

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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