- (in science fiction) a mode or function of a spaceship’s engine that enables it to travel at speeds faster than light, typically by moving through hyperspace: Sabotage caused the robot to accelerate the spacecraft into hyperdrive.In the movie, they had to activate the hyperdrive to keep their spaceship from falling into the sun.
- overdrive: Monsoon is the season when all of India goes into sowing-planting-growing hyperdrive.
