1. Noun
Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
2. Noun
The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
3. Noun
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. Verb
To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
5. Verb
To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
6. Noun
the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
7. Noun
(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"
Vocabulary classified under Physics
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