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Noun pulsation has 3 senses
- pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse - (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"
--1 is a kind of wave, undulation
- pulsation - a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
--2 is a kind of phenomenon
- pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat - the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
--3 is a kind of periodic event, recurrent event
--3 has particulars: diastole; systole; throb, throbbing, pounding
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