Adjective

(head)

(great)

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Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area ; (of a city) metropolitan.

* 1990 , Geza Peter Lauter & Chikara Higashi, Internationalization of the Japanese Economy , ISBN 0792390520, p. 285

*:more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.

* 1997 , Virginia Boucher, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook , ISBN 0838906672, p. 98

*:located in the greater Midwest.

* 2004 , Richard Alan Meckel & Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide , ISBN 0313330417, p. 201

The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.

Adjective

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(of a speed, aviation) equal to, or greater than, or capable of achieving, ten times the speed of sound.

(of a speed, aeronautics) far enough above the speed of sound as to cause ionization of the air through shock heating deriving from the sonic shockwave, with resultant radio blackout, and plasma sheath surrounding the object travelling at speed