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nebula
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nebula \Neb"u*la\ (n[e^]b"[-u]*l[.a]), n.; pl. Nebul[ae] (n[e^]b"[-u]*l[=e]). [L., mist, cloud; akin to Gr. nefe`lh, ne`fos, cloud, mist, G. nebel mist, OHG. nebul, D. nevel, Skr. nabhas cloud, mist. Cf. Nebule .] (Astron.) A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous ...
Usage examples of nebula.
Let us ask the astronomers who originate cosmogonical hypotheses, and invent a primitive nebula, the natural philosophers who dream that by the deterioration of energy and the dissipation of movement the material world will obtain final rest in the inertia of a homogeneous equilibrium, let us ask the biologists and psychologists who are enemies of fixed species and inquisitive about ancestral history.
It won the Nebula Award for 1983, and was also a Hugo Finalist that year.
He has several times been a finalist for the Nebula Award, as well as for the World Fantasy Award and for the John W.
Nebula award for best novelette in 1967 and was a finalist for the Hugo in the same year.
Hugo and Nebula Awards finalist some twenty times-more than any other writer.
She has been a Nebula Awards finalist four of the seven years the awards have been presented.
Floating alone amid the fragmented debris and vacuum-chilled nebula, the lifeboat let out a passionless electromagnetic shriek for help.
Frozen in time on a solitary ship, floating through the purple gasses of a nebula that neither cared or noticed.
Last time Kyp had fired the torpedoes into supergiant stars in a nebula.
The point-sources were indeed stived as densely as lice on the head of a harijan, but I could find no mappings to the point-exits in the nebula which lay before me, the nebula called the Solid State Entity.
And what miracles are there in coronium and nebulium which, as the child of nebula and sun, we inherit?
Because I knew that for certain, too, that nutsy Zora, with her rages, speeches, scraps of quotes, with her warm whispers for me, her smell of lotion, her wal1eye, her midnight pacing, meetings, and constant grumbling at the way of the world-that she was swirling like some nebula around a livid core of pain.
For as long as I know I have never done, nor even designed, an injury to any being whatever, Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis Arbor aestiva recreatur aura, Quod latus mundi nebulae, malusque Jupiter urget.
Spirit-created planets, fresh bubbles of universes, wisdom-stars, spectral dreams of golden nebulae on the skyey bosom of Infinity!
The spiral form of the nebula is unmistakable, but it is half obliterated amid the turmoil of flying masses hurled away on all sides with tornadic fury.