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Etymology

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super- +‎ vast

Adjective

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supervast (comparative more supervast, superlative most supervast)

  1. Very vast.
    • 1985, United States Joint Publications Research Service, East Europe Report: Science & Technology[1], Machine Intelligence Research Institute, page 3:
      His 5-minute improvised demonstration, during which he produced a metal ribbon with. 1t a crystal structure from molten steel by supervast cooling (at the rate of 5,000,000 degrees per second), has not been successful this time. The snake-like ribbon that is thinner than a hair has burned to ashes at the end of the experiment, as if it were saying to its creator: This is how inventors‘ dreams are turned into nothing.
    • 2001, Jayanta Kumar Ray, India, in Search of Good Governance[2], Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and K.P. Bagchi & Company, →ISBN, page 37:
      There is one supervast reservoir of funds which the Union can tap , and share with States , for the pursuit of programmes to meet the basic needs of the poor people, as also to speed up infrastructural development, and thereby contribute substantially to the promotion of good governance.
    • 2015, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies[3], Machine Intelligence Research Institute, →ISBN, page 1120:
      Because, when you consider all the particles in the room, there are exponentially vastly more states they can occupy if the temperature is really 22° C—which makes any particular state all the more improbable.” But no matter which exact 22° C state your room occupies, you can make the same prediction (for the supervast majority of these states) that your thermometer will end up showing 22° C, and so you are not sensitive to the exact initial conditions. You do not need to specify an exact position of all the air molecules in the room, so that is not counted against the probability of your explanation.