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supersite en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From super- + site.

Meanings

1. (Internet, informal) A major website.
   • It is a wonder some overcaffeinated hacker hasn't cobbled together the code to scrape all of the above into one gadget shopping supersite. 2007 December 13, Paul Boutin, “A Universe of Gadget Advice”, in New York Times:
2. A large or major physical site.
   • The work started in early 1990 on the central east supersite, and will continue throughout 1992 and 1993. 1995, Michel Hoepffner, Thierry Lebel, Bruno Monteny, Hydrological and atmospheric pilot experiment in the Sahel Niger 1992 (page 15)
3. A site comprising multiple subordinate sites.
   • The supersite is regarded as empty if the majority of the three sites (i.e. two or three sites) are empty, otherwise it is regarded as occupied. 2012, Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, Fractals and Disordered Systems (page 105)

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