Hyperdrive
noun
in science fiction, a device which allows a space vehicle to travel faster than the speed of light, entering hyperspace; also, the state of such space travel
Examples
Isaac Asimov first talked about hyperdrive in the 1940s.
n.
by 1955, an invented word of science fiction writers to describe anything that can power a space craft faster than the speed of light. See hyper- + drive (n.).
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