intergalactic

Occurring between galaxies.

Adjective

  1. Occurring between galaxies.
    • Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh...
    • Last week saw perhaps the first major showdown between the pseudo cryptolibertarianism they both espouse and that old-fashioned, resolutely analogue concept known as the nation state. For anyone who has spent any time...

    Coordinate Terms: interstellar interplanetary

  2. Occurring across a single galaxy, interstellar.
    • They say he's a member of the Exchange – you know, the big intergalactic criminal organization. - 2003 July 16, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English galactic English intergalactic From inter- + galactic.

Derived

intergalactically intergalactic medium warm-hot intergalactic medium