"multiversal" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌmʌltɪˈvɜːsl̩/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌmʌltɪˈvɝsl̩/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səl Etymology: From multiverse + -al. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|multiverse|al}} multiverse + -al Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} multiversal (not comparable)
  1. Of or pertaining to the multiverse. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Cosmology
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          "text": "The edge appears as a boundary of razor-sharp obsidian glass with a hazy gray area of nothingness extending a few feet beyond it. This gray, a strain on the eyes, should look familiar to any player character accustomed to multiversal travel; this is the nothingness between the planes of reality.",
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          "text": "‘Not by such a name.” Buglet shook her head. ‘She was trying to design a new sort of being, greater than the stargods, with a better control of the multiversal environment and a stronger love for all the older races. But she had to rush her work, because she was afraid the jealous young gods would try to wreck it, to defend their own supremacy.",
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          "text": "How many fashions in insanity, do you think, have been set by mentally disturbed temporal adventures? We shall never know! ’ She laughed. ‘Captain Bastable, for instance, was an inadvertent traveller (it sometimes happens), and was on the borders of madness before we were able to rescue him. First one finds it is the future which does not correspond, and this is frightening enough, if you are not expecting it. But it is worse when you return - to discover that your past has changed. You two, I take it, are fixed to a single band. Count yourselves lucky, if you do not know what to expect of multiversal time-travelling.’",
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