situated between galaxies; of, pertaining to, or occupying the regions between galaxies
Assuming the accuracy of Fresnel’s views, and the consequent reflections of the light rays from the supposed inter-galactic vacuum, it seems probable that after a number of these reflections had taken place the light vibrations would eventually cease, and the energy thus apparently dissipated might perhaps be converted into heat, thus tending in the course of ages to raise the general temperature of the ether, and preserve the great principle of the conservation of energy.
He descanted upon star spirals ‘as presumably inter-galactic objects of peculiar construction, that is, a part of a grand system and not individual galaxies or other universes.’
A race which had been able to cross the vast gulf of inter[-]galactic space in the days when Terrestrians were still developing the airplane.
If he wasn’t insane, he was experiencing man’s first inter-galactic contact with an intelligent being.
Bill can work only with materials available here on Earth. (Until the next intergalactic trading ship drops anchor on this planet, anyway.)
The figures of the two men disappeared and were replaced by what looked like a glowing spiral of dust floating against a black background—‘will shortly be facing attack by a roving intergalactic race which periodically preys upon those island universes like our galaxy which dot that intergalactic space’.
Perhaps ‘G’ stood for Ganymede, or some other intergalactic place.
For intra-and intergalactic communication, the Klingon government, along with most other governments, has accepted English as the lingua franca.
The outward journey allegedly took almost no time, because it was conducted through an intergalactic wormhole, the portal location of which is amongst those included in the Dweller List.
antedating 1888
John Ellard Gore, in the Dublin "Daily Express"
Earliest cite in the OED: 1928
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