supervoid
A very large void, especially one devoid of superclusters.
Noun
- A very large void, especially one devoid of superclusters.
- 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...
- These "supervoids" typically has length to width rations of up to ten. - 1976, Radiation Effects and Tritium Technology for Fusion Reactors: Proceedings of the International Conference Held at Gatlinburg, Tennessee,...
- The largest mass objects in the universe are superclusters of galaxies, which have a foam-like topology with "great walls" closing "supervoids". - 1997, Dark Matter In Astro- And Particle Physics, Dark '96, World...
Origin
From super- + void.