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Pulse   /pəls/   Listen
Pulse

noun
1.
(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients).  Synonyms: impulse, pulsation, pulsing.
2.
The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.  Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulsation.
3.
The rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health.  Synonyms: heart rate, pulse rate.
4.
Edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.).
verb
1.
Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.  Synonyms: pulsate, throb.
2.
Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses.  Synonym: pulsate.  "A transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
3.
Drive by or as if by pulsation.



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"Pulse" Quotes from Famous Books



... room the treatment of the drowned went slowly on. Two hours had passed, and as yet Beatrice showed no signs of recovery. The heart did not beat, no pulse stirred; but, as the doctor knew, life might still linger in the tissues. Slowly, very slowly, the body was turned to and fro, the head swaying, and the long hair falling now this way and now that, but still no sign. Every resource known to medical skill, such as hot air, rubbing, ...
— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard
... words of the old Scotch ballad would not down. Sleep! who could sleep in such an hour? Dead must be the man whose pulse beats not quicker, and whose enthusiasm is not enkindled when for the first time he is privileged to whisper to himself, ...
— Round the World • Andrew Carnegie
... disfigured by some deluge. If I give you anything like a connected account of what passed, you must thank Sigurdr's more solid temperament; for the Doctor looked quite foolish when I asked him—tried to feel my pulse—could not find it—and then wrote the following prescription, which I believe to be nothing more than an invoice of the number of bottles he himself ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)
... and bright to its destiny, leaving Clayton behind, regardless of us, and as though all we there were nothing worth. We were outside the pull of life's spinning hub. Beyond and remote from us things would be happening; but no voice or pulse of life could vibrate us, merged as we were within the ...
— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson
... all aspects would be complemented by deception, disinformation, surveillance, targeting, and killing. "Pulse" weapons would be used to disarm and actively deceive the enemy through disrupting and attacking all aspects of the adversary's electronics, information, and C4I infrastructure. It is this "lay down" of total power across all areas in rapid and simultaneous ...
— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade


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