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pul·sa·tion

(pŭl-sā′shən)

1. The action of pulsating.

2. A single beat, throb, or vibration.

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pulsation

(pʌlˈseɪʃən)

1. the act of pulsating

2. (Physiology) physiol a rhythmic beating or pulsing esp of the heart or an artery

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pul•sa•tion

(pʌlˈseɪ ʃən)

n.

1. the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.

2. a beat or throb, as of the pulse.

3. vibration or undulation.

4. a single vibration.

[1375–1425; late Middle English]

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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" pulse, pulsing, impulse electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices undulation, wave - (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
	2.	pulsation - a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity phenomenon - any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
	3.	pulsation - the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" heartbeat, pulse, beat periodic event, recurrent event - an event that recurs at intervals diastole - the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood systole - the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery throbbing, pounding, throb - an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head"

pulsation

noun

A periodic contraction or sound of something coursing:

beat, palpitation, pulse, throb.

Translations

نَبْض، خَفَقان، نَبْضَه

pulsování

pulseren

Pulsieren

pouls pulsation

érverés

sláttur

pulsazione

pulsering

pulzovanie

nabız atışıvuruş

跳动

pulsation

[pʌlˈseɪʃən] N → pulsación f, latido m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pulsation

[pʌlˈseɪʃ^ən] n → pulsation f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pulsation

n (= pulsating) → Pulsieren nt; (of head, heart) → Klopfen nt, → Pochen nt; (one beat) → Schwingung f; (of heart, in artery) → Schlag m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pulsation

[pʌlˈseɪʃ/ən] n → pulsazione f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pulse

(pals) noun

the regular beating of the heart, which can be checked by feeling the pumping action of the artery in the wrist. The doctor felt/took her pulse.

verb

to throb.

pulsate (palˈseit) , ((American) ˈpalseit) verb

to beat or throb.

pulsation (palˈseiʃən) noun

pul·sa·tion

n. pulsación, latido rítmico tal como el del corazón.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

pulsation

n pulsación f

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Petya rode beside Denisov, the pulsation of his body constantly increasing.

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I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together.

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In the midst of this choral dance, at the fifty-first pulsation, the inhabitants of the Universe pause in full career, and each individual sends forth his richest, fullest, sweetest strain.

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Nothing in the picture moved but Old Pretty's tail and Tess's pink hands, the latter so gently as to be a rhythmic pulsation only, as if they were obeying a reflex stimulus, like a beating heart.

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We might well ask ourselves of what materials are the hearts of these Americans made, to whom the approach of the most frightful danger added no pulsation.

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So, year after year, Silas Marner had lived in this solitude, his guineas rising in the iron pot, and his life narrowing and hardening itself more and more into a mere pulsation of desire and satisfaction that had no relation to any other being.

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He leaned his forehead against the door, and let the feverish throbbings of his heart calm by degrees; it had seemed as if one single additional pulsation would have made it burst.

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- an icy hand seemed to grasp my heart and check its pulsation, as I bent over him, gazing with breathless intensity upon the ghastly, upturned face.

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One visualizes it as a tract of quivering grey, intelligent without purpose, and excitable without love; as a spirit that has altered before it can be chronicled; as a heart that certainly beats, but with no pulsation of humanity.

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Maggie obeyed, with that terrible beating of the heart which makes existence seem simply a painful pulsation. The very quietness with which Mr.

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It was useless; the blood gushed out in blinding jets at each pulsation. At last, in a moment of inspiration, I kicked out a big lump of snow and struck it as plaster on my head.

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They persisted in changing colour sometimes, and they would be occasionally dilated and contracted by something like a faint pulsation; then, they gave a look of treachery, and cruelty, to the whole countenance.