Crossword clues for pulsation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pulsation \Pul*sa"tion\, n. [L. pulsatio a beating or striking: cf. F. pulsation.]
(Physiol.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
A single beat or throb of a series.
A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
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(Law) Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.
--Blackstone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French pulsation (14c.) and directly from Latin pulsationem (nominative pulsatio) "a beating or striking," noun of action from past participle stem of pulsare "to beat, strike, push against' hammer, keep hitting," figuratively "drive forth, disturb, disquiet," frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus) "to beat, strike" (see pulse (n.1)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse. (from 15th c.) 2 Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc. (from 17th c.) 3 (context now rare English) Physical striking; a blow. (from 17th c.) 4 A single beat, throb or vibration. (from 19th c.)
WordNet
n. (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" [syn: pulsing, pulse, impulse]
a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" [syn: pulse, heartbeat, beat]
Usage examples of "pulsation".
Do you hear the ticking of the horologe of time with each pulsation of your heart?
In her head she seemed to feel the floor of the ball-room rebounding again beneath the rhythmical pulsation of the thousands of dancing feet.
Where the field intervened, the sunspot shimmered and rippled with new pulsations, added to its own.
Of vital warmth enfolded it anew, And every impulse sent to every part The unbeheld pulsations of its heart.
The pulsations traveled through the water, along the bottom of the canyon and across its rim, traveling through the darkest, deepest reaches of the sea with growing intensity.
Prominent in his hearing was the methodic dialog of slowly awakening mechanisms: clicks, hums, snaps, buzzes, rising and descending whines, trills, burbles, and a hundred unfamiliar auricular pulsations.
The Lissajous pulsations became hallucinations in the sex organs of the computer.
By the aid of the sphygmograph, first invented by Herrisson, and afterward improved upon by Ludwig, Vierordt, Marey, and lastly by Pond, of our own country, the pulsations at the wrist are registered, and thus made perceptible to the eye.
It beamed in regular pulsations, sending their appeal for help flooding out, though whether their slide down the cliff and the subsequent alteration of site made by the determined turtles had dislocated it past an effective sending he could not be sure.
He stroked it as he had seen the centaurs do and it responded with flowing pulsations, but it neither shrank nor grew longer, nor did it loosen its grip.
She saw the spinnerets facing her, and the pulsations that would drive out the poisoned silk.
In her mind she concentrated upon it, bedazzled by the pulsation of its light as if she had never seen it so before.
The harsh roar of the city came in through the open window, continuously beating upon Bibbs's ear until he began to distinguish a pulsation in it--a broken and irregular cadence.
He seemed to be following the frieze of his own seated body toward the right, with a dimly felt rhythm or pulsation in his movement that corresponded to the merging duplications of the figure.
It was too dark to see what she was like, but the muffled pulsations of an internal combustion engine were distinctly audible.