What is "pulses"

Usage examples of "pulses".

By the time he found the pulses, in a poke, wrapped in cloth, they had been immersed for a quarter of an hour.

But it occurred to more than one of them that if they went south into Dovoda or Neeshtchy, there would be more pulses they could buy, and decent food, for that matter.

Agencies, reduced to skeletal cells of their best and most rapacious creative minds, cast wildly about for new pulses to finger and niches to fill.

He held her there with a steady pressure that had her body grasping at him, weeping in soft, hot pulses of entreaty.

My breath hissed in as my wrist throbbed in time with the pulses from my neck.

Most continued to carve new detail into the landscape around them-hut some gave up on shapers altogether, and started running shriekers: brief loops of instructions which fed streams of pulses into the primitive networks which had grown up between the seeds.

The tracks of these networks were just the highest ridges the shapers had built, and the pulses were tiny arrowheads, one and two steps higher.

The womb breathed life into these conventions, making the pulses race along the tracks like a quadrillion cars shuttling between the trillion junctions of a ten-thousand-tiered monorail.

The pulses flowed through the mazes of construction where the networks were still being formed-where almost every track was still connected to every other, because no decision to prune had yet been made.

Woken by the traffic, new shapers started up and began to disassemble the excess junctions, preserving only those where a sufficient number of pulses was arriving simultaneously-choosing, out of all the countless alternatives, pathways which could operate in synchrony.

The dying stratospheric plasma had found a way to reach down to Earth, its radio frequency pulses pumping vast quantities of ions through the lower atmosphere, inducing a massive voltage difference between the stormclouds and the ground.

Well, the first pulses to emerge had the time stamp for the gamma rays sent in five and a half days ago.

If the Handler was to he believed, the local computing nodes in each star system were only millimeters wide, and they communicated with the others, light years away, with pulses so weak, so tightly aimed, so unpredictable in wavelength, and so ingeniously encoded that a thousand interstellar civilizations had come and gone without noticing their presence.

One misstep at this juncture and the energy pulses would rebound, overwhelming her and locking her into an alien nightmare that would last until she went unconscious.

Old Quarter, rather the strong, steady pulses that indicated an entrance into the catacombs.