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supercee

noun

  1. Faster-than-light travelling speed.

    rare, uncountable

    1960, AUTHOR UNKNOWN, Astounding Science-fiction, pp70, 72, & 73; presumed to be an earlier work (1930 or earlier), as quotations 2 and 3 also appear in:

Where it comes from

Presumed super- + cee, a respelling of the physics symbol c (denoting the speed of light in a vacuum; an abbreviation of both English constant and Latin celeritas (“swiftness”)).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry supercee (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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