EXTRAGALACTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extragalactic mean? 

• EXTRAGALACTIC (adjective)
  The adjective EXTRAGALACTIC has 1 sense:

1. outside or beyond a galaxy

  Familiarity information: EXTRAGALACTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRAGALACTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Outside or beyond a galaxy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

extragalactic nebula

Pertainym:

galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)

 Context examples 

Earlier this year, Harvard researchers speculated that these radio bursts could be “beams set up by extragalactic civilizations to potentially power light sails.”

(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Given how much of the matter out of which we (are) formed may have come from other galaxies, we could consider ourselves space travelers or extragalactic immigrants, says lead researcher Daniel Anglés-Alcázar.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)