Thesaurus: pulse

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1. n. Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
2. n. The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
3. n. 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. v. i. To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
5. v. t. To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
6. n. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
7. n. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
8. n. the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
9. n. edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)
10. v. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
11. v. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
12. v. drive by or as if by pulsation