Thesaurus: nebular

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1. a. Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
2. adj. of or relating to or resembling a nebula
3. adj. resembling a cloud
4. Of or pertaining to nebulæ; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process of formation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms by Kant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed originally in the form of a vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, gradually cooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical and physical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, by the same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, and other bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate any hypothesis according to which the stars or the bodies of the solar system have been evolved from a widely diffused nebulous form of matter.
5. Of or pertaining to nebulæ; of the nature of, or resembling, anebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process offormation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms byKant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, itsupposed the matter of the solar system to have existed originally inthe form of a vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, graduallycooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical andphysical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, bythe same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, andother bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate any hypothesisaccording to which the stars or the bodies of the solar system havebeen evolved from a widely diffused nebulous form of matter.
6. j:100 a. of or relating to or resembling a nebula