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blitzar

noun

Etymology

Blend of blitz + star. Proposed in 2013 by Heino Falcke and Luciano Rezzolla. By surface analysis, blitz + -ar.

  1. derived from *h₂stḗr✻
  2. inherited from *sternô✻
  3. inherited from *sterrō✻
  4. inherited from steorra
  5. inherited from sterre
  6. compounded as blitzar — “blitz + star”

Definitions

  1. A phenomenon that emits a fast radio burst.

  2. The object type that generates the phenomenon which emits the burst.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blitzar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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