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Definition: HYPERSPACE |
HYPERSPACENoun1. An imagined space having more than three dimensions. |
Note: Hyperspace \Hy"per*space\, noun. [Prefix hyper- space.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Hyperspace /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is _far_ away from where the program counter should be pointing, especially a place that is inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system. "Another core dump -- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow." (Compare jump off into never-never land.) This usage is from the SF notion of a spaceship jumping `into hyperspace', that is, taking a shortcut through higher-dimensional space -- in other words, bypassing this universe. The variant `east hyperspace' is recorded among CMU and Bliss hackers. Source: Jargon File. |
Physics | Space with more than 3 dimensions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In science fiction, hyperspace refers to a region somehow alongside and connected with our own universe (in some cases displaced in an extra spacial dimension) which may be entered using some sort of energy field. While hyperspace is in some way anchored to the normal universe, it's much more compact, so traveling one mile in hyperspace is equivalent to traveling a thousand miles in normal space, or a billion miles, or a trillion. This makes for a very good explanation of faster than light (FTL) travel: pop your starship into hyperspace, move along for a while, pop back into normal space, and you end up light years from your starting point in original space, with only having spent several months, weeks, or even days in transit. In fact, hyperspace is the most common device used for explaining FTL in a science fiction story when FTL is a necessary for interstellar travel.
In many stories, a starship can not enter or leave hyperspace too close to a large concentration of mass, like a star; this means that hyperspace can only be used to get to the outside edge of a solar system, and then must use other means of propulsion to get to or from the planets closer to the star. This is probably done so that a starship can't easily escape by conveniently slipping into hyperspace, thus ensuring epic space battles.
Hyper-space is usually portrayed as either being completely empty, with a gray or black appearance, or as being full of shifting, luminous tendrils and clouds of... something; imagine a universe crammed full of nebulas.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hyperspace."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Space | Noun: space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HYPERSPACE |
| Specialty definitions using "HYPERSPACE": branch to Fishkill ♦ jump off into never-never land. (references) |
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Screenplays | Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy. (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hyperspace (1984) | |
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
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| "HYPERSPACE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HYPERSPACE" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hyperspace | 88 |
hyperspace star war | 17 |
hyperspace starwars.com | 9 |
center fun hyperspace | 8 |
hyperspace studio | 7 |
hyperspace theory | 5 |
hyperspace delivery boy | 4 |
hyperspace password | 3 |
hyperspace password star war | 3 |
epic hyperspace manual | 3 |
cam hyperspace web | 2 |
epic hint hyperspace | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HYPERSPACE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | hyperrum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπερχώρος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yperspacehay hiperespaço. (various references) hiperespacio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HYPERSPACE": hyperspaces. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-p-p-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: peachers, preaches, preshape. | |
-3 letters: cappers, cheaper, cyphers, eparchs, eparchy, escaper, hyraces, parches, peacher, peaches, perches, perhaps, preachy, prepays, rappees, reaches, reshape, respace, schappe, scrappy, yappers. | |
-4 letters: arches, capers, capper, chapes, chares, chaser, cheaps, cheeps, cheers, cheery, cheesy, crapes, crappy, crease, creasy, creeps, creepy, creesh, crepes, crepey, cypher, cypres, eparch, escape, escarp, eschar, haeres. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-p-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: hyperspaces. | |
+5 letters: cyproheptadines, psychotherapies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 59 50 45 52 53 50 41 43 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... -.--. .--. . .-. ... .--. .- -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01011001 01010000 01000101 01010010 01010011 01010000 01000001 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H Y P E R S P A C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0059 0050 0045 0052 0053 0050 0041 0043 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42595039525350353739 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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