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supercee

supercee noun: faster-than-light travelling speed.

Noun

supercee (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Faster-than-light travelling speed.
    • But Man had always been a restless, persistent creature, and the stars called, and in an incredibly short space of time a highly-ingenious refinement of the theta drive gave him supercee.
    • “What I can’t understand, Psy, is why in the name of Mira the Terrans couldn’t have been admitted to the Federation as soon as they developed supercee. […]”
    • Offhand I’d say that the Terrans, when they hit on the secret of star-driving a planet, which isn’t much of a trick once the supercee principle is clearly understood, decided to go off on a hunt round the galaxy for a see-tee system.1930, Information Access Company, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact, pp63, 73, & 77
    Synonyms:
    warp speed

Synonyms of supercee

Origin of supercee

Presumed super- + cee, a respelling of the physics symbol c (denoting the speed of light in a vacuum; an abbreviation of both English constant and Latin celeritas (“swiftness”)).

Questions about supercee

What does supercee mean?
Supercee means faster-than-light travelling speed.
What part of speech is supercee?
Supercee is a noun.

Words near supercee in the dictionary

  1. supercavitations
  2. supercede
  3. superceded
  4. supercedes
  5. superceding
  6. supercee
  7. superceed
  8. supercelebrities
  9. supercelebrity
  10. supercelestial
  11. supercelestially

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