pulsator

From Latin pulsator.

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

pulsator (plural pulsators)

1. (astronomy) Any pulsating astronomical object
2. (dated) A beater; a striker.
3. (engineering, dated) That which beats or throbs in working.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 201:

     Model washing-machines containing a large tank with a realistic pulsator, and a wringer with independently sprung rubber rollers.

4. A pulsometer.
5. (mining) A jigging machine used in the South African diamond industry.

• pulsar

• postural, sportula

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊɫˈsaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pulˈsaː.t̪or]

pulsātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of pulsō

• “pulsator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pulsator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French pulsatoire.

pulsator m or n (feminine singular pulsatoare, masculine plural pulsatori, feminine and neuter plural pulsatoare)

1. pulsatory