[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

nova \no"va\ n=o"v.a, n.; pl. l. novae n=o"v=e, e.
   novas n=o"v.az. l., fem. sing. of novus new.
   astron.
   a star which suddenly increases in brightness thousands of
   times, then fades back to near its original intensity. it may
   appear as a "new" star if its original brightness was too low
   for routine observation. a star which suddenly increases in
   brightness to many millions of times its original intensity
   is a supernova, and the postulated mechanisms for the
   increases of brightness of novae and supernovae are
   different.

   note: the most important modern novae are:

   no"va coro"nae bo`rea"lis1866;

   no"va cyg"ni1876;

   no"va andro"medae1885;

   no"va auri"gae1891-92;

   no"va per"sei1901. there are two novae called nova
      persei. they are:
   a a small nova which appeared in 1881.
   b an extraordinary nova which appeared in perseus in 1901.
       it was first sighted on february 22, and for one night
       february 23 was the brightest star in the sky. by july
       it had almost disappeared, after which faint surrounding
       nebulous masses were discovered, apparently moving
       radially outward from the star at incredible velocity.
       webster 1913 suppl. +pjc
see also:
novae novas supernova no"va coro"nae bo`rea"lis no"va cyg"ni no"va andro"medae 
no"va auri"gae no"va per"sei nova persei 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

nova
     n : a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a
         cloud and become more luminous in the process
     also: novae pl
see also:
novae 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 moby thesaurus words for "nova":
   beehive, cepheid variable, hertzsprung-russell diagram, hyades,
   messier catalog, ngc, pleiades, seven sisters, absolute magnitude,
   binary star, black hole, double star, dwarf star, fixed star,
   giant star, globular cluster, gravity star, magnitude,
   main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, neutron star,
   open cluster, populations, pulsar, quasar,
   quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star,
   relative magnitude, sky atlas, spectrum-luminosity diagram, star,
   star catalog, star chart, star cloud, star cluster,
   stellar magnitude, supernova, variable star, white dwarf star

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

nova
     
         a minicomputer?, introduced some time before
        1978, with four 16-bit accumulators, ac0 to ac3 and a 15 bit
        program counter.  a later model also had a 15-bit stack
        pointer and frame pointer.  ac2 and ac3 could be used for
        indexed addresses and ac3 was used to store the return address
        on a subroutine call.  apart from the small register set,
        the nova was an ordinary cpu design.
     
        memory could be access indirectly through addresses stored in
        other memory locations.  if locations 0 to 3 were used for
        this purpose, they were auto-incremented after being used.  if
        locations 4 to 7 were used, they were auto-decremented.
        memory could be addressed in 16-bit words up to a maximum of
        32k words 64k bytes.  the instruction cycle time was 500
        nanoseconds? cycle time for each.  the nova originally
        used core memory though later on they gained dynamic ram.
     
        like the pdp-8, the data general nova was also copied, not
        just in one, but two implementations - the data general
        mn601 and fairchild 9440.  luckily, the nova was a more
        mature design than the pdp-8.
     
        another cpu, the pace, was based on the nova design, but
        featured 16-bit addresses instead of the nova's 15, more
        addressing modes and a 10-level stack like the intel
        8008.
     
        date, speed, mini?
     
        1996-03-01
     
     
see also:
minicomputer accumulator program counter stack pointer frame pointer subroutine 
register set cpu nanoseconds core memory dynamic ram 
pdp-8 data general data general mn601 fairchild 9440 pace 
addressing mode stack intel 8008 

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

nova, oh
  zip codes: 44859

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