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

1. 1. The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. "The nebulosity . Of the mother idiom." (I. Disraeli) 2. The stuff of which a nebula is formed. A nebula. Origin: L. Nebulositas: cf. F. Nebulosite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nebulosity

nebulises
nebulising
nebulium
nebuliums
nebulization
nebulizations
nebulize
nebulized
nebulizer
nebulizers
nebulizes
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nebulose
nebulosi
nebulosities
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nebulosus
nebulous
nebulous urine
nebulously
nebulousness
nebulousnesses
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nebulæ
necator
necator americanus
necatoriasis
necessaire
necessarian
necessarianism

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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