Noun: pulsar
| Singular | pulsar |
| Plural | pulsars |
Sample Sentences
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Rapidly rotating dead stars, pulsars are so named because as they spin, they release beams of electromagnetic radiation across space that appear to pulse like celestial lighthouses.
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But a pulsar called PSR J1023+0038, located about 4,500 light-years away from Earth in the Sextans constellation, is even more unusual in that some of the pulses are brighter than others, almost like it’s switching between different modes. [2023 August 30, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers solve the puzzle of an unusual pulsing dead star”, in CNN:]
Nouns inflected like pulsar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Blend of pulsating + (radio) star, patterned after quasar. Coined by British astronomers Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell in 1968, and first used in print in The Daily Telegraph. By surface analysis, pulse + -ar
Verbs referencing "pulsar"
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pulsar, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
pulsar, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
pulsar, Romanian Nouns
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pulsar, German Nouns
Pulsar, Finnish Nouns
pulsari, Russian Nouns
пульсар, Ukrainian Nouns
пульсар, Catalan Nouns
púlsar, Irish Nouns
pulsár, Hungarian Nouns
pulzár.