# stardrive
## English
### Alternative forms

* star drive, star-drive

### Etymology

From star +‎ drive. From the ability of the drive to propel the vehicle to the stars.

### Noun

stardrive (plural stardrives)
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* (science fiction) A device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances.
** Stardrive section of a Galaxy-class starship.
    Memory Alpha, Secondary hull, 2005
** Atlantis, utilizing its star drive, was able to travel from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Pegasus Galaxy, a distance of between 3.26 and 3.5 million light years.
    GateWorld, Stardrive
** Scorpio is damaged in a collision course with a asteroid and the Scorpio crew require a star-drive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run all Federation pursuit ships
    IMDB, "Stardrive"
** Nebula moved back to her main console and looked to the stardrive unit's monitors immediately discovering the grim truth.
    iUniverse, "The Godmaker Legacy: The Derelict: A Novel", Kirkland D. Casey, 2003, pp.171, →ISBN
** The StarDrive was discovered on the planet Centaurus
    NESFA Hymnal, "Reminder", B. Coulson, 1976, pp.12
** no star drive yet devised could produce that kind of acceleration
    "Orbitsville Departure", B. Shaw, 1983, pp.190
** Every race they met on their way through the Core had a 'star drive based on a different theory.
    "Light", M.J. Harrison, 2002, pp.135
** The voice of the Organic Computer began counting down the seconds until the star drive was cut
    Amazing Stories, "We All Died At Breakaway Stations", B.C. Meredith, 1969
** Man's horizons exploded to the rims of the universe with the perfection of the star drive
    Astounding SF, "Blood's Rover", C. Oliver, 1952
** They'll know the principles of the star drive in a few more generations
    Astounding SF, "Genius", P. Anderson, 1948
** We will have to wait until they move off. I should be able to calculate their direction and get a rough idea of the distance from the power signature when they activate their Stardrive
    Aliens, "Guardian Generations", Clive Osborne Rapley, 2010, pp.67, →ISBN
** When they engaged the Star Drive to escape, the hunter mine had closed to ninety metres, inside the Star Drive's field of influence.
    Trafford Publishing, "Origin: The Heritage Files - Phase One", Roger Hydes, 2008, →ISBN
** —or century: humans can endure star-drive!
    Arc Manor, "The Colors of Space", Marion Zimmer Bradley, 2008, pp.97, →ISBN
** He was also beginning to lose faith that the recently recovered and bizarrely incoherent Ehrehin was really capable of delivering a working singularity- powered stardrive prototype any time in the foreseeable future.
    Simon and Schuster, "The Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do", Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, 2007, pp.434, →ISBN
** Whatever kind of creatures they were, and whatever the disaster that threatened their planet, they had a star-drive to take them out of the solar system to another star.
    Prologue Books, "Scavengers in Space", Alan E. Nourse, 2013, →ISBN
** What could be gleaned from study of the landing craft was as far from the stardrive as their first steam engine had been from that spaceship itself; there was no chance of premature contact with other races.
    "The Far Side of Evil", Sylvia Louise Engdahl, 1989, pp.158

#### Hypernyms

* spacedrive

#### Hyponyms

* warp drive
* jump drive
* hyperdrive
* FTL drive

### References

* ↑ Memory Alpha, Secondary hull (accessed 2014-03-18)
* ↑ GateWorld, Stardrive (accessed 2014-03-18)
* ↑ IMDB, "Stardrive" (accessed 2014-03-18)
* ↑ books.google.com, , (accessed 2014-03-18)
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