Meanings
adjectiveprestellar (not comparable)
alternative pre-stellar
- not comparableastronomyDescribing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a star
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.
2013 March 19, Greg Bear, String 25, in Halo: Silentium (Forerunner Saga; 3), New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 212
Origin
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