galaxywide
See also: galaxy-wide
English
    
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Etymology
    
galaxy + -wide. Coined by Isaac Asimov in 1940 in the form "galaxy-wide".
Adjective
    
galaxywide (not comparable)
- Throughout a galaxy.
-  1949 January, Kuttner, Henry, “Time Axis”, in Startling Stories, volume 18, number 3, page 50:- I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide.
 
-  1959 June, Harris, Larry M., “Extracts from the Galactick Almanack”, in Galaxy, volume 17, number 5, page 136:- Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments.
 
-  1989, McKinney, Jack, The End of the Circle, →ISBN, page 203:- Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.
 
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:galaxywide.
 
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References
    
- “galaxywide” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 75.
- galaxy-wide adj. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project
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