megashed

Noun

megashed (plural megasheds)

1. A massive store, warehouse, or distribution center, especially one with a plain or unattractive exterior.
   • Outside the business pages, it will probably be Tesco the bulldozer that makes headlines, as it is lambasted for supposedly demolishing traditional high streets and replacing small shops with its category-killing megasheds.2006 April 21, George MacDonald, “Tesco needs to spread word of its good work”, in Retail Week
   • Here, theboxtank (Emily Andersen, Geoff DeOld and Corey Hoelker), a collaborative blog about big-box urbanism and retail, considers the latent architectural possibilities of the now global phenomenon of space enclosing industrially clad megasheds - the potential of which was never underestimated by...2006, Ian Abley, Jonathan Schwinge, Manmade Modular Megastructures, →ISBN, page 96
2. An extremely large watershed.
   • The Umpqua Basin was selected as a result of subdividing the Coast Range into six megasheds (watersheds of 1-2 million acres each), the largest areas that could be modeled given the computer hardware (2 gigabytes of RAM) available at the time.2000, Lael M. Rogan, Combining the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to assess current and future recreation conditions in Oregon's coast range
   • How has ramping up to the scale of whole watersheds, and so-called megasheds, affected the way scientists think about and execute their crucial experimental work?2004, Sally Duncan, Technology and meaning in natural resource management: the story-making role of GIS in the CLAMS project