supersite

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ site.

Pronunciation

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Noun

supersite (plural supersites)

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