meaning of nebula
1. A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.
2. A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.
3. A cloudy appearance in the urine.
4. 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 43:197-201 1961].
5. pathology a faint cloudy spot on the cornea
Related Words
nebula | nebulae | nebular | nebular hypothesis | nebulated | nebulation |
