prestellar

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See also: pre-stellar

English

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Etymology

From pre- +‎ stellar.

Adjective

prestellar (not comparable)

  1. (astronomy) Describing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a star
    • 2013 March 19, Greg Bear, String 25, in Halo: Silentium (Forerunner Saga; 3), New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 212:
      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.