Pulsation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of pulsating.
  • n. A single beat, throb, or vibration.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A single beat, throb or vibration
  • n. A recurring increase and decrease of some quantity
  • n. Any touching of another's body wilfully or in anger, constituting battery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
  • n. A single beat or throb of a series.
  • n. A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
  • n. Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or process of pulsating, or beating or throbbing: as, the pulsation of the heart, of an artery, of a tumor.
  • n. A single beat of the heart or a blood-vessel.
  • n. A beat or stroke by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sound. See beat, n., 2.
  • n. In law, a beating without pain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
  • n. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
  • n. a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wave    undulation    phenomenon   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beating    beat    throb    stroke    shudder    tremble    palpitation    pant    quiver    pitapat   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pulsations    submultiple    throb    thrum    snore    thud    dilatation    respiration    whoosh    swish