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pulsation
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)
- 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.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Premature Burial’:
- Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc. [from 17th c.]
- (now rare) Physical striking; a blow. [from 17th c.]
- By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.
- A single beat, throb or vibration. [from 19th c.]
Translations
Anagrams
- platinous
French
Etymology
From Latin puls?ti?.
Pronunciation
Noun
pulsation f (plural pulsations)
- pulsation
Further reading
- “pulsation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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flutter
English
Etymology
From Middle English floteren, from Old English floterian, flotorian (“to float about, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flutr?n?, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *flut?n? (“to float”), equivalent to float +? -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Low German fluttern, fluddern (“to flutter”), German flittern, Dutch fladderen; also Albanian flutur (“butterfly”). More at float.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fl?t?/, [?fl???]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fl?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?(?)
Verb
flutter (third-person singular simple present flutters, present participle fluttering, simple past and past participle fluttered)
- (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
- (intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
- (intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
- (transitive) To cause something to flap.
- (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
- (intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be frivolous.
Translations
Noun
flutter (countable and uncountable, plural flutters)
- The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
- c. 1838, Richard Monckton Milnes, The Forest
- the chirp and flutter of some single bird
- c. 1838, Richard Monckton Milnes, The Forest
- A state of agitation.
- flutter of spirits
- 1900, Henry James, The Soft Side The Third Person Chapter 3
- Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.
- An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
- (uncountable, aerodynamics) An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in structural failure.
- (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
- 30 July, 2009, Eurosport, Gray Matter: How will Schu do?
- So with his victory odds currently at 14/1 or 3/1 for the podium, he's still most certainly well worth a flutter […]
- 30 July, 2009, Eurosport, Gray Matter: How will Schu do?
- A hasty game of cards or similar.
- (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
Derived terms
- aflutter
- flutter in the dovecote
- flutterby
- fluttersome
- fluttery
Translations
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