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superhighway

[ soo-per-hahy-wey, soo-per-hahy-wey ]

noun

  1. a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  2. any very fast route or course.


superhighway

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noun

  1. a fast dual-carriageway road
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of superhighway1

First recorded in 1925–30; super- + highway
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Bird flu first arrived in North America in 2014, following a typhoon in Asia that impacted the North American Pacific Flyway, one of the major avian superhighways.

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This was the so-called “information superhighway,†which Levin called the Full Service Network.

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Using genetic analyses and oceanographic modelling, researchers at Oxford University demonstrated for the first time that a network of ocean currents scatter significant numbers of larvae between these distant islands, acting as a 'coral superhighway.'

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