gigantuan

comparative more gigantuan · superlative most gigantuan

1. colloquialnonstandardVery large.

   At minimum, print out each "reg" 5-tuple separately, instead of one gigantuan string.

   1999 September 3, Philip Brown, “driver: how to map specific IOspace address?”, in comp.unix.solaris (Usenet)

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   Because it was build in the fourties^([sic]) it is steem^([sic]) powered and with its gigantuan pipe it has to have 12 sweeps working 24 hours per day.

   2003 December 29, Kristian Lahdensuo, “World's largest train”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet)

   To accomplish this gigantuan task, cells appear to chunk the DNA components into increasingly larger units as shown in Fig. 2.9, first into nucleosmes^([sic]) which are “strung” together into 11 nm-diameter “beads-on-a-string” form.

   2012 April 5, Sungchul Ji, Molecular Theory of the Living Cell: Concepts, Molecular Mechanisms, and Biomedical Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 54

   Synonyms: ample, big, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, exceeding, expansive