Definition of Intergalactic space

1. Noun. The space between galaxies. "The Milky Way travels through intergalactic space"

Group relationships: Outer Space, Space
Generic synonyms: Part, Region

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intergalactic Space

interfoveolar ligament
interframe
interframes
interfraternity
interfretted
interfrontal
interfulgent
interfullerene
interfuse
interfused
interfuses
interfusing
interfusion
interfusions
intergalactic
intergalactic space (current term)
intergalactically
intergang
interganglionic
interganglionic rami
intergemmal
intergenal
intergene
intergeneration
intergenerational
intergenerational relations
intergenerationally
intergeneric
intergenetic

Literary usage of Intergalactic space

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plasma Physics Of The Local Cosmos by National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Solar and Space Physics (2004)
"Plasmas pervade intergalactic space, interstellar space, interplanetary space, and the space environments of the ..."

2. Popular Science Monthly (1912)
"... may be expected to leave a clean-swept track of considerable width through that part of its revolution which occurs in intergalactic space. ..."

3. The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac Winter Heysinger (1894)
"No possible increase of suns directly in mass could compensate for such an inverse ratio of squares, even if all intergalactic space were peopled with suns, ..."

4. Solar Energy: Its Source and Mode Throughout the Universe by Isaac Winter Heysinger (1901)
"No possible increase of suns directly in mass could compensate for such an inverse ratio of squares, even if all intergalactic space were peopled with suns, ..."

5. Transcendence of the Western Mind by Samuel Avery (2003)
"... it leaves the Andromeda galaxy, “travels” across 2000000 light-years of intergalactic space, and lands in your eye all at exactly the same time. ..."

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