Prestellar
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Prestellar is an adjective meaning (astronomy) Describing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a star.
Meaning
(astronomy) Describing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a star.
Example Sentences
The first flex of the membrane, leading to the clench, begins at the extreme interior margins of Path Terrulian in the 78th Thema, a cold, pre-stellar dust cloud fringed with cooling, iron-hearted stars and vast numbers of stony and icy planets and asteroids.
Word Forms
- pre-stellar
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preplanetary, proplanetary, protosolar, pre-planetary, presupernova, preatmospheric.
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