English Dictionary

pulse

/pʌls/

noun

A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.

She felt a strong pulse in her wrist.

意味（1）

A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.

意味（2）

The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.

Her pulse was thready and weak.

意味（3）

(figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.

When the ear receives any ſimple ſound, it is ſtruck by a ſingle pulſe of the air, which makes the ear-drum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and ſpecies of the ſtroke.

意味（4）

(figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.

You can really feel the pulse of the city in this district.

意味（5）

(chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.

意味（6）

(cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting.

意味（7）

(music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.

意味（8）

A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc.

A thin ruby crystal is illuminated by two successive intense short pulses of coherent light, t seconds apart, obtained from a ruby-laser source. As expected, the crystal will transmit the two pulses t seconds apart. But then one observes a curious additional feature: a third light pulse emerges spontanously from the crystal about t seconds following the second pulse, and still relatively intense.

意味（9）

Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”)

意味（10）

(also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.