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  • adjective Being or occurring between galaxies.

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  • adjective Occurring between galaxies.

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  • adjective between or among galaxies

Etymologies

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From inter- +‎ galactic.

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Examples

  • Mr. Peckman is a firm believer in intergalactic life, though he has never been personally contacted by an alien.

    Colorado Flying-Saucer Believers Have Ghost Hunters in Their Sights Stephanie Simon 2010

  • Mephisto lures the Surfer to a dive in intergalactic nowhere.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • Mephisto lures the Surfer to a dive in intergalactic nowhere.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • The other is highly intelligent, able to walk through walls and control matter, carries its eggs itself, was drifting in intergalactic space, and was overcome because of a psychological weakness.

    How to Become a Fanboy 2006

  • You too can engage in intergalactic space combat for about $55 USD for a USB 2.0 mecha, or $45 for a USB 1.1 mecha.

    Boing Boing: July 18, 2004 - July 24, 2004 Archives 2004

  • We then follow his journey towards the training facility, the whole process of "rejuvenation" and all the consequences this corporeal change brings to a couple of thousand people with very alienated relationship towards their bodies; forming of new friendships (the clique of "Old Farts", as they name themselves) and finally John's participation in intergalactic war where the race of men battles myriad of diverse and rapacious alien races for the right of colonization and expansion.

    John Scalzi - Old Man's War (Book Review) 2008

  • We then follow his journey towards the training facility, the whole process of "rejuvenation" and all the consequences this corporeal change brings to a couple of thousand people with very alienated relationship towards their bodies; forming of new friendships (the clique of "Old Farts", as they name themselves) and finally John's participation in intergalactic war where the race of men battles myriad of diverse and rapacious alien races for the right of colonization and expansion.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Rather, the rejuvenating spark more likely came from a gradual sopping-up of the gas in the so-called intergalactic medium, the thin soup of material between galaxies.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Rather, the rejuvenating spark more likely came from a gradual sopping-up of the gas in the so-called intergalactic medium, the thin soup of material between galaxies.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • I also have said in speeches from time to time that going from Southeast Arkansas to Northwest Arkansas is to take a trip that sometimes I've called intergalactic and sometimes interplanetary.

    Arkansas News 2009

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