different between pulsation vs beating

English

Etymology

From Middle French pulsacion, and its source, Latin puls?ti? (“a beating or striking”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?l?se??n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?l?se???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

pulsation (countable and uncountable, plural pulsations)

1. The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse. [from 15th c.]
   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Premature Burial’:

     Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity.

2. Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc. [from 17th c.]
3. (now rare) Physical striking; a blow. [from 17th c.]

   • By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.

4. A single beat, throb or vibration. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Anagrams

• platinous

French

Etymology

From Latin puls?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

pulsation f (plural pulsations)

1. pulsation

Further reading

• “pulsation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t??

Noun

beating (plural beatings)

1. The action by which someone or something is beaten.

   the beating of a drum

   secret beatings of prisoners

2. A heavy defeat or setback.
3. The pulsation of the heart.

Translations

Verb

beating

1. Present participle and gerund of beat.

Anagrams

• betaing