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English

Etymology
L. pulsus, �beat�, from pellere, �to drive�

Noun
en-noun

1. Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.
2. physiology A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
3. A beat, throb.
4. music A periodically recurring short stimulus, perceived as points in time. (DeLone? et. al. (Eds.), 1975, chap. 3) Often the stimuli are defined as identical (Cooper & Meyer, 1960). rfc|music definition needs rewritten because the current one is copyrighted

Related terms
impel
impulse

Translations
trans-top|regular beat caused by the heart
Arabic: Arab|�بضة IPAchar|(náb�a) f
Chinese: ��, �� (màibó)
Dutch: pols m
Finnish: pulssi
French: pouls m
German: Puls m
Hungarian: pulzus
Icelandic: æðasláttur m, púls m
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Italian: polso m
Japanese: �� (�����, myakuhaku)
Korean: 맥� (maekbak)
Portuguese: pulso m
Russian: п�л�� (pul�s) m
Spanish: pulso m
Swedish: puls c
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trans-top|a beat, throb
Finnish: syke
German: Puls m
Icelandic: sláttur m
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trans-top|in music
German: Puls m
Icelandic: taktslag n, púls m
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ttbc|Slovak: pulz m (1)
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See also
beat
arrhythmia
blood pressure
heartbeat
meter
tempo

References
R:Century 1911
R:Webster 1913
DeLone? et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.

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