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vela
1[ vee-luh ]
Vela
2[ vee-luh, vey- ]
noun
- the Sail, a southern constellation: one of the subordinate constellations into which Argo is divided.
- U.S. Aerospace. one of a series of reconnaissance satellites designed to detect nuclear explosions.
Vela
/ ˈviːlə /
noun
- a constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Puppis and Carina and crossed by the Milky Way, that has four second-magnitude stars and a young bright pulsar
Word History and Origins
Origin of vela1
Example Sentences
The winner of Tuesday’s special election will finish Vela’s truncated term, which ends in January.
An alarmed Vela, who has held office for 24 years, has been forced to look inward.
The Vela 3 and 4 satellites observed brief flashes of high-energy photons, or gamma rays, that appeared to be coming from space.
Either way, it’s considerably larger than the Vela supernova remnant, which is about 100 light-years wide.
Vela is not an employee of the hospital, but he was told vaccine doses were available if he wanted one.
Smith is running against incumbent Democrat Filemon Vela, who destroyed his opponent in 2012 with 62 percent of the vote.
The roof of the fourth ventricle widens out very much and remains largely epithelial as the superior and inferior medullary vela.
The Redonda and Alta Vela phosphates consist chiefly of phosphate of alumina.
De la Torre, therefore, requested the father guardian to converse on the subject with Vela Nunnez.
At first Vela Nunnez was on his guard, lest it might be a false confidence devised for his ruin.
Leaving these friendly Indians, Ojeda pursued his way along the coast to the westward, until he reached cape de la Vela.
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