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pulsation


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pulsation  \Pul*sa"tion\,  n.  [L.  pulsatio  a  beating  or  striking: 
  cf  F.  pulsation.] 
  1.  (Physiol.)  A  beating  or  throbbing,  especially  of  the  heart 
  or  of  an  artery,  or  in  an  inflamed  part  a  beat  of  the 
  pulse. 
 
  2.  A  single  beat  or  throb  of  a  series. 
 
  3.  A  stroke  or  impulse  by  which  some  medium  is  affected,  as 
  in  the  propagation  of  sounds. 
 
  4.  (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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pulsation 
  n  1:  (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}] 
  2:  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}] 




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