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  • verb Present participle of pulse.
  • adjective That pulses
  • noun The emission of pulses

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

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Examples

  • If I was to re-do it, I would standardize the rings which are pulsing from the center of the image, bring the lightning bolts to the front of the logo and tidy up the globe.

    Icon Redux – Defenders Of The Earth « The Graveyard 2010

  • If I was to re-do it, I would standardize the rings which are pulsing from the center of the image, bring the lightning bolts to the front of the logo and tidy up the globe.

    2010 March « The Graveyard 2010

  • And at the same time, on my inner sight, was grotesquely limned a picture of a brain pulsing savagely against the veneer of skin that covered that cleft of skull beneath the dripping sou'-wester.

    CHAPTER XXXIX 2010

  • The downside: it's another incredibly complex issue, and I can already feel my little brain pulsing in my skull, begging for mercy.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • You can actually see the vain pulsing in the forehead of this website.

    Think Progress » Coulter on 9/11 Widows: ‘I Have Never Seen People Enjoying their Husbands’ Death So Much’ 2006

  • The downside: it's another incredibly complex issue, and I can already feel my little brain pulsing in my skull, begging for mercy.

    Slow Going 2006

  • And at the same time, on my inner sight, was grotesquely limned a picture of a brain pulsing savagely against the veneer of skin that covered that cleft of skull beneath the dripping sou '- wester.

    Chapter 39 1914

  • His prayers are among the best in English, pulsing {140} and throbbing with earnest faith and fear, yet entirely free from the luscious sentimentality of so many modern religious compositions.

    Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

  • Nothing showed, of course; the pulsing was a rhythmic trace vibration that only he could feel.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Nothing showed, of course; the pulsing was a rhythmic trace vibration that only he could feel.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

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