Nebula : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Nebula	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Nebula
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nebula n a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer cloudiness of the urine an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nebula \Neb"u*la\, n.; pl. {Nebul[91]}. [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[91] are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)