pulse

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; the qualitative nature of this beat.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.