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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intergalactic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
intergalactic travel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternatively the capsule might be drifting in the weak gravitational field of intergalactic space.
▪ Captain Kirk will end his boldly going where no man has gone before by becoming an intergalactic monk.
▪ However, there's a snag in this intergalactic transportation scheme.
▪ The Flandrau Science Center goes back and forth with a pair of presentations exploring both the Jurassic past and the intergalactic future.
▪ Want a hand working through your inner alien, or simply hope to get an accurate count of those intergalactic frequent-flier miles?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intergalactic

1928, from inter- + galactic.

Wiktionary
intergalactic

a. Occurring between galaxies.

WordNet
intergalactic

adj. between or among galaxies; "intergallactic space"

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Intergalactic

Intergalactic may refer to:

  • Intergalactic space
  • Intergalactic travel, travel between galaxies in science fiction and speculation
  • "Intergalactic" (song), a song by the Beastie Boys
Intergalactic (song)

"Intergalactic" is a song by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, released as the first single from their fifth studio album Hello Nasty on May 12, 1998.

The single hit #28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts, making it the band's third Top 40 single there. It also reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart, where it remains the band's biggest hit in the country.

The song received a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1999.

Usage examples of "intergalactic".

Each individual intergalactic ship was miles long, with silver-and-blue hypermorphic hulls that would gather up every speck of starlight falling on their spinshifted molecules and radiate it away again in a uniform coronal shimmer.

That is why most Wood aficionados consider his magnum opus to be an intergalactic graverobber movie called Plan 9 from Outer Space.

He grew to like being in this little oasis, away from starports and intergalactic trade.

That so called doomsday machine left a clear trail of devastation which led toward the outer rim of our galaxy--and, assumably, into intergalactic space beyond.

Tonight, as most nights, the place is oppressively silent except for torpid electronic bloops from the PCs (most editors favor the tropical aquarium screen-saver option, while the reporters go for intergalactic warfare motifs).

Followed by the surfer who wasn't there with the black boardshorts, sun glasses and a phrase book called -'Catchy Surfing Phrases For Intergalactic Stormtroopers'- none of which existed.

The undischarged amount of said loan and mortgage being FORTY TRILLION, NINE HUNDRED SIXTY BILLION, TWO HUNDRED SEVENTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED FIVE THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN GALACTIC CREDITS (C40,960,217,605,216), being the unpaid remainder and interest of the initial loan, advanced in good faith to THE INTERGALACTIC MINING COMPANY of Psychlo, of SIXTY TRILLION GALACTIC CREDITS (C60,000,000,000,000), and paid by GALACTIC BANK TRANSFER at the order of said INTERGALACTIC MINING COMPANY to the account of THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT OF PSYCHLO, being, in full, payment for purchase of said planet “.

How can we - he indicated himself and his bedraggled companion - how can we battle it out with an intergalactic strike force?

He produced his handful of intergalactic small change and selected the small silver coin the man had given him at the coffee stall.

This was the first intergalactic communicatory contact made, apart from faint, blurred signals of relatively primitive culture.

Acorna thought of the few times she had been around Andina when the owner of the Domestic Goddess Intergalactic Cleaning Corporation visited Becker.

As with many extragalactic radio sources, two enormous jets of gas, fleeing apart at almost the speed of tight, were making a complex web of Rankine-Hugoniot shock fronts with the thin intergalactic gas -- and producing in the process a radio beacon that shone brightly over most of the universe.

As with many extragalactic radio sources, two enormous jets of gas, fleeing apart at almost the speed of tight, were making a complex web of Rankine-Hugoniot shock fronts with the thin intergalactic gas--and producing in the process a radio beacon that shone brightly over most of the universe.

A proto-galaxy rotating in an intergalactic magnetic field would generate electric fields in the same way, which in turn would produce filamentary currents flowing inward through the galactic plane to the center, and then up along the rotational axis to loop back in a return path reentering around the rim.

A flavour of the material is given by these monograph titles: ``The Unique Brain Development of the Chrysto-peds of Srom Norba X', `Fire Worship and Sacrifice on Srom Sodrat IF, `The History of the Intergalactic Scientific Institute', and `The Application of Unified Field Theory and the Mechanics of the Stardrive to Space Travel'.