ultravast

English

Etymology

ultra- +‎ vast

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌltɹəvɑːst/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʌltɹəvæst/
• Hyphenation: ul‧tra‧vast

Adjective

ultravast (comparative more ultravast, superlative most ultravast)

1. (rare) Extremely or exceedingly vast; of utmost vastness.
   • 1981, United States Congress House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Tax, Access to Equity Capital, and Business Opportunities, Impact of Estate and Gift Taxation on Capital Formation‎^[1], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 27:

     It is the ultravast accumulations we are concerned about more than anything else.

   • 2004, Sphyrex Shobol, Nexus Infinitas: The Seekers: Between Heaven and Hell‎^[2], iUniverse, →ISBN, page 171:

     When it's like that, it's the coolest thing feeling that I've ever experienced. A sensation of total serenity, like I'm some ultravast ocean rippling with waves of pure ecstasy and permeated with waves of pure ecstasy and permeated with currents of sheer rapture.

   • 2010, David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology‎^[3], Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 79:

     The super-small and ultravast spaces steadily explored by the sciences can never explain this lovely and problem-ridden world that we daily inhabit, since those abstract spaces are largely woven out of the perceptual fabric of this very world, Certainly our forays into those abstract dimensions can offer us clues, new approaches to the land around us, new ways of looking at a forest or feeling a volcanic tremor.

   • 2016, Kenneth W. Goodman, Ethics, Medicine, and Information Technology: Intelligent Machines and the Transformation of Health Care‎^[4], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     He makes clear that a barrier to previous natural language-processing analyses has been a lack of easily acquirable examples of human speech and communciation, and the World Wide Web constitutes an ultravast repository of examples.

   • 2019 August 1, Jeremy A. Greene, Andrew S. Lea, “Digital Futures Past - The Long Arc of Big Data in Medicine”, in europepmc.org‎^[5], archived from the original on 31 July 2021:

     Half a century ago, physicians and engineers shared a dream that computers wielding ultravast memories and ultrafast processing times could deduce diagnoses, store medical records, and circulate information.

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