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pulsar

noun

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

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

Definitions

  1. A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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