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pulsation

noun

1 pulsation

electronics A sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients):
— The pulsations seemed to be coming from a star.

synonyms: impulse, pulse, pulsing.

Roget 821: feeling; suffering etc. v.; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy etc. (love) 897; ... show more

Dutch: impuls, puls, stroomstoot

2 pulsation

A periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity.

Polish: pulsacja

3 pulsation

The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.

synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulse.

Roget 138: periodicity, intermittence; beat; oscillation etc. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity.    bout, ... show more

Roget 314: oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse.    alternation; coming and going etc. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ... show more

Dutch: pols, hartslag


Moby thesaurus: alternation, arrhythmia, bar beat, barrage, beat, beating, ceaselessness, chattering, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, cyclicalness, downbeat, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, flutter ... show more.

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