pulsation

Other forms of pulsation

plural

pulsations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pulsation

What does pulsation mean?

pulsation means "(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pulsation?

pulsation has 4 syllables: pul-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for pulsation?

Close synonyms include pulsing, pulse, impulse, pulse, heartbeat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pulsation a common word?

pulsation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.