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語源

galaxy +‎ -wide. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1940 in the form "galaxy-wide".

形容詞

galaxywide (not comparable)

1. Throughout a galaxy.
   • 1949 January, Kuttner, Henry, “Time Axis”, in Startling Stories, volume 18, number 3, page 50:

     I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide.

   • 1959 June, Harris, Larry M., “Extracts from the Galactick Almanack”, in Galaxy‎^[1], volume 17, number 5, page 136:

     Critics on both sides of what rapidly became a Galaxywide controversy were forced, however, to acknowledge the magnificent playing of the Student Orchestra and its great technical attainments.

   • 1989, McKinney, Jack, The End of the Circle, →ISBN, page 203:

     Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:galaxywide.

同意語

• pangalactic, transgalactic

参照

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “galaxywide”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 75.
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2023), “galaxy-wide adj.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.