supervoid

plural supervoids

1. astronomyA very large void, especially one devoid of superclusters.

   These "supervoids" typically has length to width rations of up to ten.

   1976, Radiation Effects and Tritium Technology for Fusion Reactors: Proceedings of the International Conference Held at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, October 1-3, 1975, Volume 1, National Technical Information Service, page 147

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   Although the terms are sometimes interesting and useful, they have the effect of turning life into a kind of chartless supervoid. Perhaps the real problem is that too many sociologists and other thinkers have grown post-articulate.

   1971, Time, Time 1971, Time, page 10

   The largest mass objects in the universe are superclusters of galaxies, which have a foam-like topology with "great walls" closing "supervoids".

   1997, Dark Matter In Astro- And Particle Physics, Dark '96, World Scientific Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 412