meaning of pulse
1. Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
2. The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
3. Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc. ; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.
4. To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
5. To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
6. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her
">heart"
Related Words
pulse | pulse counter | pulse generator | pulse height analyzer | pulse modulation | pulse rate | pulse timing circuit | pulse-time modulation | pulsed | pulseless | pulseless disease | pulselessness |
