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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alternation, arrhythmia, bar beat, barrage, beat, beating, ceaselessness, chattering, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, cyclicalness, downbeat, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, flutter, heartbeat, heartthrob, incessancy, intermittence, intermittency, meter, noninterruption, offbeat, oscillation, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pendulum motion, periodicalness, periodicity, perpetuity, piston motion, pitapat, pitter-patter, pound, pounding, pulse, quick fire, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, regularity, reoccurrence, repetition, return, rhythm, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, seasonality, spatter, splutter, sputter, staccato, steadiness, stuttering, sustainment, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thumping, tom-tom, undulation, unintermission, uninterruption, upbeat, vibration
Dictionary Results for pulsation:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pulsation
    n 1: (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" [syn:
         pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse]
    2: a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately
       increases and decreases some quantity
    3: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with
       each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
       [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pulsation \Pul*sa"tion\, n. [L. pulsatio a beating or striking:
   cf. F. pulsation.]
   1. (Physiol.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart
      or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the
      pulse.
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   2. A single beat or throb of a series.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as
      in the propagation of sounds.
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   4. (Law) Any touching of another's body willfully or in
      anger. This constitutes battery.
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            By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as
            verberation is prohibited.            --Blackstone.
      [1913 Webster]

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