The term hyperuniformity (also independently called super-homogeneity in the context of cosmology) was coined and studied by Salvatore Torquato and Frank Stillinger in a 2003 paper, in which they showed that, among other things, hyperuniformity provides a unified framework to classify and structurally characterize crystals, quasicrystals, and exotic disordered varieties. In that sense, hyperuniformity is a long-range property that can be viewed as generalizing the traditional notion of long-range order (e.g., translational / orientational order of crystals or orientational order of quasicrystals) to also encompass exotic disordered systems.