pulsation

pulsation is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
2. noun. A single beat or throb of a series.
3. noun. A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
4. noun. Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
5. noun. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

   "he could feel the beat of her heart"

   Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulse

6. noun. (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"

   Synonyms: impulse, pulse, pulsing

7. noun. a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity

Synonyms

beat, heartbeat, pulse, impulse, pulsing

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pulsation:

platinous

Common word forms

pulsations, pulsational

Words from these letters

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