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/pʌlsˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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(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 - a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
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the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
he could feel the beat of her heart
How To Use pulsation In A Sentence
- Unfortunately, the carotid pulsations in the neck can easily be confused with jugular pulsations.
- This was considered a blood effusion; it was not obviously distensile, and pulsation was very slight. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
- These are so-called geomagnetic variations or pulsations. AvaxHome RSS:
- With such a person there is not much intense thought, there is little or no muscular action, the pulsations of the heart do not require to be of much force, the respiration is feeble, digestion is at its lowest point, there are no great demands for animal heat, and in fact if the temperature of the atmosphere of the room in which such a person lies, be kept high, the function of calorification may be almost nothing. Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology
- Bell's brilliant coupling of sound waves and electrical pulsations had given rise to the telecommunications revolution.
- In some cases the car driver can feel a pulsation or vibration in the brake pedal every time a car stops, though the brakes seem to work fine.
- This, however, is to be observed: that in winter and the colder season, exsanguine animals, such as the snail, show no pulsation; they seem rather to live after the manner of vegetables, or of those other productions which are therefore designated plant-animals. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
- Unfortunately, the carotid pulsations in the neck can easily be confused with jugular pulsations.
- The limbs grew stiff and rigid -- the features smoothed into that mysteriously wise placidity which is so often seen in the faces of the dead, -- the closed eyelids looked purple and livid as though bruised ... there was not a breath, not a tremor, to offer any outward suggestion of returning animation, -- and when, after some little time, Heliobas bent down and listened, there was no pulsation of the heart ... it had ceased to beat! Ardath
- Service in systems involving frequent flow reversals and pulsation should be avoided.
