[ 'pʌlsα: ]
■ noun Astronomy a celestial object, thought to be a rapidly rotating neutron star, that emits regular rapid pulses of radio waves.
Origin
1960s: from puls(ating st)ar , on the pattern of quasar .
[ 'pʌlsα: ]
■ noun Astronomy a celestial object, thought to be a rapidly rotating neutron star, that emits regular rapid pulses of radio waves.
Origin
1960s: from puls(ating st)ar , on the pattern of quasar .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004