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n. A single complete pulsation of the heart.

n. A vital force or driving impulse: Broadway is the heartbeat of the New York City theater world.

n. An instant: The police arrived at the scene in a heartbeat.

n. One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.

n. The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator

n. A driving impulse or vital force.

n. A very short space of time; an instant.

n. A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.

n. the audible and palpable rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.

n. A pulsation of the heart, including one complete systole and diastole, corresponding to that motion in the arteries called the pulse.

n. Hence Figuratively, a thought; an emotion, especially one that is tender or sad; a pang; a throb or throe of feeling.

n. an animating or vital unifying force

n. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

n. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

"With the nine-year-old Doha round of trade talks on the back burner, "the only [global] trade negotiation with a heartbeat is the GPA," says Simon Evenett, a trade economist at the University of Saint Gallen in Switzerland."

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