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Definition of Nebulosity
1. n. The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; haziness; mistiness; nebulousness.
Definition of Nebulosity
1. Noun. (meteorology astronomy) the characteristic of being nebulous; cloudiness ¹
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Definition of Nebulosity
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Medical Definition of Nebulosity
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1. The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. "The nebulosity . Of the mother idiom." (I. Disraeli)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nebulosity
Literary usage of Nebulosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1903)
"Sky very clear; stars small and very numerous; small areas void of stars ; no
nebulosity. Sky very clear; stars small and crowded on plate; small areas void ..."
2. The Observatory (1903)
"Max Wolf is not entirely a question of the size of the nebulosity ? ... I suggest
that when he records diffused nebulosity he means that he saw nebulosity ..."
3. The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Ll.D.: Eleven Volumes in Two by Thomas Dick (1851)
"S. 25° 30J' ; diam. low the northern claw of the Crab: aa mass of stars with
nebulosity. It is a cluster pretty much compressed, in which Sir W. Herschel ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"... which would follow a hyperbolical orbit, while the nucleus, surrounded only
by a slight nebulosity, would continue its elliptical route. ..."
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