supervoid

English

Etymology

super- +‎ void

Noun

supervoid (plural supervoids)

  1. (astronomy) A very large void, especially one devoid of superclusters.
    • 1971, Time, Time 1971‎, Time, page 10:
      Although the terms are sometimes interesting and useful, they have the effect of turning life into a kind of chartless supervoid. Perhaps the real problem is that too many sociologists and other thinkers have grown post-articulate.
    • 1976, Radiation Effects and Tritium Technology for Fusion Reactors: Proceedings of the International Conference Held at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, October 1-3, 1975, Volume 1‎, National Technical Information Service, page 147:
      These "supervoids" typically has length to width rations of up to ten.
    • 1997, Dark Matter In Astro- And Particle Physics, Dark '96‎, World Scientific Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 412:
      The largest mass objects in the universe are superclusters of galaxies, which have a foam-like topology with "great walls" closing "supervoids".
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