stardrive
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From star + drive. From the ability of the drive to propel the vehicle to the stars.
Compound parts: star
drive
Inflected forms:
form: stardrives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: star drive
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: star-drive
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances.
pos: noun
examples: 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
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