Nebula Definition

nĕbyə-lə
nebulae, nebulas
noun
A cloud of interstellar gas or dust.
Webster's New World
A galaxy. No longer in technical use.
American Heritage
A small, cloudy opacity on the cornea.
Webster's New World
A liquid preparation used as a spray.
Webster's New World

(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • vapor
  • nimbus
  • galaxy
  • luminous vapor
  • interstellar dust
  • galactic vapor
  • cloud cluster
  • rarified gas

Other Word Forms of Nebula

Noun

Singular:
nebula
Plural:
nebul, nebulae, nebulas

Origin of Nebula

  • From Latin nebula (“little cloud", "mist"). Akin to Greek νεφέλη, "cloud", German Nebel, "mist", "nebula", Old Norse nifl.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English nebule cloud, mist from Latin nebula nebh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nebula Sentence Examples

  • The drawing of the nebula of Orion was published in the Phil.

  • Antoniadi discovered that a nebula surrounded it.

  • In fact a little consideration of the theory of probabilities will show it to be infinitely probable that such an object should really have some movement of rotation, no matter by what causes the nebula may have originated.

  • The condensation of a nebula could be followed in the same manner as we can study the growth of the trees in the forest, by comparing the trees of various ages which the forest contains at the same time.

  • The solar system formed from a large gas nebula that had some dust grains in it.

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Words Starting With

NNENEB

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ALAULA

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