megasheds

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
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