Definitions for nebulas

nebulas neb·u·la

Spelling: [neb-yuh-luh]
IPA: /ˈnɛb yə lə/

Nebulas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in nebulas (abelnsu).

Definitions for nebulas

noun

  1. Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
  2. Pathology. a faint opacity in the cornea. cloudiness in the urine.
  3. any liquid medication prepared for use as a spray.

Origin of nebulas

1655-65; Latin: a mist, vapor, cloud; akin to Greek nephélē cloud, German Nebel fog, haze

Examples for nebulas

Huggins has found that the spectrum of this nebula is not gaseous.

Such were a few of the theorems to which his discovery of this nebula led him.

What, then, is the origin of a nebula, and what the physical explanation of that origin?

The nebula Praesepe in Cancer, he was also able to resolve into a cluster of stars.

The visitor, by its attraction, drew from the nebula a wisp of gas.

Nebulosa means cloudy or dark, from nebula, a cloud; from its color.

Viewed in a very small telescope, this object resembles a nebula.

The starting-point, the nebula, is no figment of the scientific imagination.

The stars were almost gone, the center of the nebula only a faint wisp.

Nowhere else in the heavens is the architecture of a nebula so clearly displayed.

Word Value for nebulas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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