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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French pulsacion, and its source, Latin pulsātiō (“a beating or striking”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pulsation (countable and uncountable, plural pulsations)
- The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity.
- Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XII:Lo! as a dove when up she springs
To bear thro’ Heaven a tale of woe,
Some dolorous message knit below
The wild pulsation of her wings;
Like her I go; I cannot stay;
I leave this mortal ark behind […]
- (now rare) Physical striking; a blow.
- A single beat, throb or vibration.
Translations
regular throbbing of the heart
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin pulsātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
pulsation f (plural pulsations)
- pulsation
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