pulsation

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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)

  1. 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.
  2. 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 […]
  3. (now rare) Physical striking; a blow.
  4. A single beat, throb or vibration.

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French

Etymology

From Latin pulsātiōnem.

Pronunciation

Noun

pulsation f (plural pulsations)

  1. pulsation

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