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nebula

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nebula  \Neb"u*la\,  n.;  pl  {Nebul[ae]}.  [L.,  mist,  cloud;  akin 
  to  Gr  ?,  ?,  cloud,  mist,  G.  nebel  mist,  OHG.  nebul,  D. 
  nevel,  Skr.  nabhas  cloud,  mist.  Cf  {Nebule}.] 
  1.  (Astron.)  A  faint,  cloudlike,  self-luminous  mass  of  matter 
  situated  beyond  the  solar  system  among  the  stars.  True 
  nebul[ae]  are  gaseous;  but  very  distant  star  clusters 
  often  appear  like  them  in  the  telescope. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nebula 
  n  :  an  immense  cloud  of  gas  (mainly  hydrogen)  and  dust  in 
  interstellar  space 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Nebula 
 
  An  early  business-oriented  language  from  {ICL}  for  the 
  {Ferranti  Orion}  computer. 
 
  ["NEBULA  -  A  Programming  Language  for  Data  Processing",  T.G. 
  Braunholtz  et  al  Computer  J  4(3):197-201  (1961)]. 
 
  (1994-11-29)




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