Meanings
nounjumpship (plural jumpships)
plural jumpships
- literatureA spaceship able to instantaneously move large distances through space by traveling through hyperspace or jumpspace.
Ben stared at the hologram. "The megacorps don't have quite the monopoly on fast transit that they think they have," he said. "But it would certainly help if we had a few more jumpships. That would solve a lot of transit problems."
2015, Jacey Bedford, Crossways, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 59
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