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Definition of Pulsation

1. Noun. (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"

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

3. Noun. The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart. "He could feel the beat of her heart"

Definition of Pulsation

1. n. A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.

Definition of Pulsation

1. Noun. A single beat, throb or vibration ¹

2. Noun. A recurring increase and decrease of some quantity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pulsation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulsation

puls pulsant pulsar pulsarlike pulsars pulsatance pulsatances pulsate pulsated pulsates

pulsatile pulsatility pulsatilla pulsating pulsatingly pulsation (current term) pulsational pulsationally pulsations pulsative

pulsator pulsators pulsatory pulse pulse-time modulation pulse counter pulse demodulator pulse demodulators pulse detonation engine pulse detonation engines

Literary usage of Pulsation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"The reporter thought that this pulsation, transmitted in all directions, was peculiar to retroperi- toneal cysts. ..."

2. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1897)
"The last, pulsation of resistance and reactance, causes higher harmonics only with a current ... Lack of uniformity and pulsation of the magnetic field, ..."

3. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1916)
"The last, pulsation of resistance and reactance, causes higher harmonics only ... A periodic pulsation of speed may occur in low speed singlephase machines. ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"This salivary diastase was obtained from human saliva, and from parotid- and Tobacco-Smoking: its effects upon pulsation. ..."

5. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1916)
"The last, pulsation of resistance and reactance, causes higher harmonics only ... A periodic pulsation of speed may occur in low speed singlephase machines. ..."

6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1889)
"A systolic murmur at the second right costal interspace with capillary pulsation absent 4 A systolic murmur at the second right costal interspace with ..."

7. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"In the case of the radial or other arter}-, running over a bony sui lace, the vessel may even partially rise out of its bed at each pulsation. ..."

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