as in pulse
a rhythmic expanding and contracting
you should press against the artery in your wrist and count the pulsations to calculate your heart rate
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Recent Examples of pulsation
Most watches only feature one pulsation scale, but this supposedly unique 5970 features two, one for 15 beats and another for 30.
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Thomas Wojtowicz, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Photograph: Courtesy of the Caltech Archives and Special Collections
Measurements of H0 improved as astronomers got better at calibrating the relationship between Cepheids’ pulsation frequency and their luminosity.
—Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024
How to use: After wetting your face, apply cleanser directly to the tool and turn it on to activate the sonic pulsations.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2024
Out in the open air, pulled from the cavernous bellies of fish, those hearts continued beating—a heap of pulsation, life holding onto life.
—Diana Saverin, Longreads, 25 July 2024
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Thomas Wojtowicz, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Photograph: Courtesy of the Caltech Archives and Special Collections
Measurements of H0 improved as astronomers got better at calibrating the relationship between Cepheids’ pulsation frequency and their luminosity.
—Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024
How to use: After wetting your face, apply cleanser directly to the tool and turn it on to activate the sonic pulsations.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2024
Out in the open air, pulled from the cavernous bellies of fish, those hearts continued beating—a heap of pulsation, life holding onto life.
—Diana Saverin, Longreads, 25 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsation
Noun
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The floor smelled ripe, the smell of classrooms and basements, which came back to him with another pulse of childhood excitement.—
Clare Sestanovich,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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Anyone with a pulse realizes AI is no longer a far-off possibility.—
John Hall,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
Noun
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The electric throb of cicadas enters my veins like an ether.—
Helen Whybrow
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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The ’70s-evoking folk fare that dots the front half of the record greatly contrasts with the dance floor throb of the latter, and few of the hooks hit as hard as some of her previous work.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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“Pulsation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsation. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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