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US
/ˈpʊɫsɝ/
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[ UK /pˈʌlsɑː/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌlsɑː/ ]
NOUN
- a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation
How To Use pulsar In A Sentence
- Subsequent timing observations have shown the pulsar to be in a 5.74-day circular orbit with a low-mass companion.
- The "clocks" in question are actually millisecond pulsars – city-sized, sun-massed stars of ultradense matter that spin hundreds of times per second. New Pulsar "Clocks" Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection | Universe Today
- At si Hebraea voce loqueretur, frustra pulsaret sensum meum, nec inde mentem meam quidquam tangeret; si autem Latine, scirem quid diceret. Pneumatologia
- Each had a Pulsarian engineer working its innards from beneath the craft.
- 'Novi ego aliquem qui dormitabundus aliquando pulsari horam quartam audiverit, et sic numeravit, una, una, una, una; ac tum præ rei absurditate, quam anima concipiebat, exclamavit, Næ! delirat horologium! Literary Remains, Volume 1
- As the pulsar rotates, this beam sweeps the sky a lighthouse beam sweeps around the horizon.
- I read up on interstellar objects and astrophysics and studied quasars, pulsars and supernovas, but my main focus was black holes.
- Some pulsars keep time better than the earth's most accurate clocks.
- The wavelengths of the radio waves emitted by the pulsar are lengthened as a result of the effects of the gravitational field of the companion star (gravitational redshift).
- A total of 112 pulse arrival times over a 120-day time interval were collected for this pulsar.