as in pulses
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 pulsations
While many fast radio bursts are known to repeat pulsations over several months, the RBFLOAT did not release any repeat signals in the hundreds of hours after it was initially observed.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsations
pulses
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The technique uses sequences of laser pulses, effectively software instructions, to manipulate atoms in ways that cancel out environmental interference.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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For decades, scientists have studied brain activity during certain tasks by using electrodes that record electrical pulses from single neurons.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Pulsations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsations. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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