quasar

WOTD – 12 May 2009    

See also Quasar, and quásar

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From quasi-stellar radio source.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkweɪ.zɑː/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkweɪ.zɑɹ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

quasar (plural quasars)

1. (astronomy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and thought to be the most distant objects in the universe.

Synonyms

• Q
• QSO, quasi-stellar object
• (dated) QSR, quasi-stellar radio-source
• (obsolete) QSS, quasi-stellar source
• (obsolete) BSO, blue stellar object

Derived terms

• microquasar

Translations

An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and thought to be the most distant objects in the universe

• Arabic: نجم زائف (ar) (najm zaa'if) m, شبيه النجم (ar) (shabiih al-najm) m
• Armenian: քվազար (hy) (k’vazar)
• Belarusian: квазар (be) (kvazár) m
• Bulgarian: квазар (bg) (kvazár) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 類星體 (cmn), 类星体 (cmn) (lèixīngtǐ), 似星體 (cmn), 似星体 (cmn) (sìxīngtǐ)

• Czech: kvazar (cs) m, kvasar (cs) m
• Danish: kvasar (da) c
• Esperanto: kvazaro (eo)
• Finnish: kvasaari (fi)
• French: quasar (fr) m
• German: Quasar (de) m
• Greek: κβάζαρ (el) (kvázar) m
• Hebrew: קוואזר (he)
• Hindi: कैसर (hi) (kaisar)
• Ido: quazaro (io)

• Irish: cuasár (ga) m
• Italian: quasar (it) m and f
• Japanese: クエーサー (ja) (kuēsā)
• Korean: 퀘이사 (ko) (kweisa)
• Malay: kuasar (ms)
• Norwegian: kvasar (no) m
• Polish: kwazar (pl) m
• Portuguese: quasar (pt) m
• Russian: квазар (ru) (kvazár) m
• Scottish Gaelic: cuasar (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: квазар (sh) m

  Roman: kvazar (sh) m

• Slovene: kvazar (sl) m
• Spanish: cuásar (es) m
• Swedish: kvasar (sv) c
• Ukrainian: квазар (uk) (kvazár) m

See also

• AGN, active galactic nucleus
• active galaxy
• pulsar
• RIQ, RLQ, RQQ