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Supergravity is a field theory in physics combining supersymmetry and general relativity. A supergravity theory is generally the zero-length limit of a superstring theory (i.e., the limit in which the string is approximated as having zero length, and treated as a dimensionless point-particle), with the exception of "maximal" 11-dimensional supergravity, which is a limit of M-theory (most likely the limit in which the membranes are treated as having zero volume).