supervoid

A very large void, especially one devoid of superclusters.

Noun

  1. 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.

Forms

supervoids