pulsar

See also: pulsár, púlsar, and Pulsar

English

Etymology

Blend of pulsating +‎ star, patterned after quasar. Coined by British astronomer Antony Hewish in 1968, and first used in print in The Daily Telegraph.

Noun

pulsar (plural pulsars)

1. (astronomy) A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically

Derived terms

• PSR (abbreviation)

Translations

rotating neutron star

• Arabic: نباض
• Armenian: պուլսար (hy) (pulsar)
• Belarusian: пульса́р m (pulʹsár)
• Bulgarian: пулса́р (bg) m (pulsár)
• Catalan: púlsar m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脈衝星／脉冲星 (zh) (màichōngxīng), 脉冲星 (zh) (màichōngxīng)

• Czech: pulzar m, pulsar m
• Danish: pulsar c
• Dutch: pulsar (nl) c
• Esperanto: pulsaro
• Finnish: pulsari (fi)
• French: pulsar (fr) m
• German: Pulsar (de) m
• Greek: πάλσαρ (el) m (pálsar)
• Hebrew: פולסר (he) m
• Hungarian: pulzár (hu)
• Ido: pulsaro (io)
• Irish: pulsár m
• Japanese: パルサー (parusā)
• Korean: 펄서 (ko) (peolseo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: pulsārs m
• Lithuanian: pulsaras m
• Malay: pulsar
• Norwegian: pulsar m
• Persian: تپ‌اخت
• Polish: pulsar (pl) m
• Portuguese: pulsar (pt)
• Romanian: pulsar (ro) m
• Russian: пульса́р (ru) m (pulʹsár)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̀лса̄р m

  Roman: pùlsār (sh) m

• Slovene: púlzar m
• Spanish: púlsar (es) m
• Swedish: pulsar (sv) c
• Thai: พัลซาร์ (pan-saa)
• Turkish: pulsar, atarca (tr)
• Ukrainian: пульса́р m (pulʹsár)
• Vietnamese: sao xung
• Volapük: pebastel

See also

• magnetar
• RRAT, rotating radio transient
• SGR, soft gamma repeater

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pulsar.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pulsar c (plural pulsars)

1. (astronomy) pulsar

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Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto pulsi, from English pulsate, German pulsieren, Spanish pulsar, Portuguese pulsar, ultimately from Latin pulsō, frequentative of pellō (“drive, strike”).

Verb

pulsar (present tense pulsas, past tense pulsis, future tense pulsos, imperative pulsez, conditional pulsus)

1. (transitive) to push, thrust, impel
2. (intransitive) to beat, throb, pulsate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of pulsar

		present		past		future
infinitive		pulsar		pulsir		pulsor
tense		pulsas		pulsis		pulsos
conditional		pulsus
imperative		pulsez
adjective active participle		pulsanta		pulsinta		pulsonta
adverbial active participle		pulsante		pulsinte		pulsonte
nominal active participle	singular	pulsanto		pulsinto		pulsonto
	plural	pulsanti		pulsinti		pulsonti
adjective passive participle		pulsata		pulsita		pulsota
adverbial passive participle		pulsate		pulsite		pulsote
nominal passive participle	singular	pulsato		pulsito		pulsoto
	plural	pulsati		pulsiti		pulsoti

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English pulsar.

Noun

pulsar m (definite singular pulsaren, indefinite plural pulsarer, definite plural pulsarene)

1. (astronomy) a pulsar

References

• “pulsar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pulsar.

Noun

pulsar m (definite singular pulsaren, indefinite plural pulsarar, definite plural pulsarane)

1. (astronomy) a pulsar

Etymology 2

Noun

pulsar m

1. indefinite plural of puls

References

• “pulsar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pulsar.

Noun

pulsar m inan

1. (astronomy) pulsar

Declension

Declension of pulsar

	singular	plural
nominative	pulsar	pulsary
genitive	pulsara	pulsarów
dative	pulsarowi	pulsarom
accusative	pulsar	pulsary
instrumental	pulsarem	pulsarami
locative	pulsarze	pulsarach
vocative	pulsarze	pulsary

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulsāre, present active infinitive of pulsō. Doublet of the inherited puxar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puɫ.ˈsaɾ/
• Hyphenation: pul‧sar

Verb

1. to pulse, beat, pulsate

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pulsar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǔlsaːr/

Noun

pùlsār m (Cyrillic spelling пу̀лса̄р)

1. (astronomy) pulsar

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulsāre, present active infinitive of pulsō. Doublet of the inherited pujar.

Verb

1. to press (a button, etc.)
2. (computing) to click (to press and release a button on a computer mouse)
3. to pulsate

Related terms

• expulsar
• impulsar
• pulso

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Swedish

Noun

pulsar

1. (astronomy) A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically
2. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of puls

Verb

pulsar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of pulsa.