Definition of "super"

The job is super interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people.

1992 March 14, The Canberra Times, page 9, column 2

“The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried,” he tweeted.

2022 November 18, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, Kellen Browning, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave”, in The New York Times‎

The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example.

1989, Kai Hwang, Doug DeGroot, Parallel processing for supercomputers and artificial intelligence

There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.

1983, Sue Hubbell, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Boston, MA: Mariner Books, published 1999, page 69

For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.

1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎

The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right.

1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post‎

That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.

1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil, page 46

The question is: when is the best time to super?

1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73

Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]

1987, Television Quarterly, volumes 23-24