intergalactic adj.
situated between galaxies; of, pertaining to, or occupying the regions between galaxies
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1888 Letter in Daily Express (Dublin) 19 June 7/2
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.
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1920 Fort Worth Star-Telegram 2 May 1/3
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.’
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1932 Invaders from the Infinite in Amazing Stories Quarterly Spring–Summer 154/1
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John W. Campbell, Jr.
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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.
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1954 Pompous Asteroid in Fantastic Universe Dec. 112/1
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Winston K. Marks
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If he wasn’t insane, he was experiencing man’s first inter-galactic contact with an intelligent being.
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1968 in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ vi. 356
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Bill can work only with materials available here on Earth. (Until the next intergalactic trading ship drops anchor on this planet, anyway.)
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1970 Hour of Horde iii. 36
Gordon R. Dickson
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’.
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1988 Bimbos of Death Sun i. 7
Sharyn McCrumb
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Perhaps ‘G’ stood for Ganymede, or some other intergalactic place.
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1992 Klingon Dictionary 10
Marc Okrand
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For intra-and intergalactic communication, the Klingon government, along with most other governments, has accepted English as the lingua franca.
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2005 Algebraist iii. 166
Iain M. Banks
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.
Research requirements
antedating 1888
Earliest cite
John Ellard Gore, in the Dublin "Daily Express"
Research History
Bill Mullins submitted a cite for "inter-galactic" from a 1920 newspaper.Simon Koppel submitted a cite from John Ellard Gore from an 1888 newspaper.
Earliest cite in the OED: 1928
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