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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Occurring or situated within the space of a galaxy.

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Examples

  • Here are the dates, so far, of my Intragalactic Reading Tour not to be confused with an Intergalactic Reading Tour, or, conversely, an intragalactic rowboat.

    2006 June | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2006

  • Here are the dates, so far, of my Intragalactic Reading Tour not to be confused with an Intergalactic Reading Tour, or, conversely, an intragalactic rowboat.

    Intragalactic Tour | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2006

  • However, strategic pressures-technological developments, expansion of other races into the afore mentioned sectors, an overall increase in intragalactic trade-have weakened that control.

    Rosetta Stern, Dave 2006

  • The warp drive, which is fine for transiting intragalactic distances—a few thousand lightyears at a time, say, on the longest hauls—is completely unequal to the distances involved in intergalactic travel.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • Hamal was close to Sol and Terra, but it was also within the boundaries of the great Majoris Congeries, an intragalactic “open” cluster of twenty stars that was home to as many wildly diverse species, from methane-breathers to one winged species that found the atmospheres of stars congenial.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • Hamal was close to Sol and Terra, but it was also within the boundaries of the great Majoris Congeries, an intragalactic “open” cluster of twenty stars that was home to as many wildly diverse species, from methane-breathers to one winged species that found the atmospheres of stars congenial.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • The warp drive, which is fine for transiting intragalactic distances—a few thousand lightyears at a time, say, on the longest hauls—is completely unequal to the distances involved in intergalactic travel.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • The warp drive, which is fine for transiting intragalactic distances—a few thousand lightyears at a time, say, on the longest hauls—is completely unequal to the distances involved in intergalactic travel.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • The warp drive, which is fine for transiting intragalactic distances—a few thousand lightyears at a time, say, on the longest hauls—is completely unequal to the distances involved in intergalactic travel.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • Hamal was close to Sol and Terra, but it was also within the boundaries of the great Majoris Congeries, an intragalactic “open” cluster of twenty stars that was home to as many wildly diverse species, from methane-breathers to one winged species that found the atmospheres of stars congenial.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

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