Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fictional device allowing a spaceship to travel faster than the speed of light, especially by passing through hyperspace.
- noun Informal A state of heightened activity or concentration.
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- noun science fiction A means of traveling
faster thanlight . - noun A state of accelerated action
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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March 17th, 2010 at 9: 37 pm glamourdammerung says: drhunt1 says: glamour-quit reading the left-winged blogs that are in hyperdrive right now, attempting to minimize this particular poll.
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Side Note: I keep looking for worthy Star Trek goodies to write about but the merchandising biys at Lucasfilm seem to be in hyperdrive mode this year.
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At some point, not that long ago, Jamie Stuart, even under the pressure of an impossible turnaround, realized that signaling "immediacy" or "timeliness" by giving the camera a Dogme-tic rattle, saturating the soundtrack with newsfeed noise and cramming it all through any given editing software's hyperdrive is so 20th century.
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Some minor upkeep issues ... coolant venting, hyperdrive is about due for your 6 lightyear tune up, umm ... shocks, sparks, could handle that all for about 200.
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The main reason is this: we know too little about the so-called hyperdrive and have no experience with it.
Blazing Sun Ernsting, Walter 1975
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By late November, MBIA was working in "hyperdrive" with private-equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, according to Mr. Chaplin.
Bond Insurer's Woes Add Aaron Lucchetti and Liam Pleven 2008
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B&C Executive EditorMelissa Grego about how he expects the company to continue to claim retrans and advertising wins, and why the new executive structure will "hyperdrive" News Corp. 's business.
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News Corp. TV boss expects recent moves to 'hyperdrive' company's businesses
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B&C Executive EditorMelissa Grego about how he expects the company to continue to claim retrans and advertising wins, and why the new executive structure will "hyperdrive" News Corp. 's business.
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News Corp. TV boss expects recent moves to 'hyperdrive' company's businesses
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