FAR-FLUNG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does far-flung mean? 

• FAR-FLUNG (adjective)
  The adjective FAR-FLUNG has 2 senses:

1. distributed over a considerable extent

2. remote

  Familiarity information: FAR-FLUNG used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAR-FLUNG (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distributed over a considerable extent

Synonyms:

far-flung; widespread

Context example:

widespread nuclear fallout

Similar:

distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remote

Context example:

far-flung corners of the Empire

Similar:

distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)

 Context examples 

Spray-on bandages could help protect wounds and deliver life-saving drugs in far-flung places where immediate medical care is not available, according to a new study.

(Scientists Develop Spray Gun to Paint Bandages onto Wounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Given the inherent challenges in trying to observe these far-flung worlds, astronomers often need to combine data from a variety of sources in order to tease out basic details about their properties.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)

Theoretical models of this period predict that after the gas giants formed they rampaged through the Solar System, ejecting small rocky bodies from the inner Solar System to far-flung orbits at great distances from the Sun.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)