v. To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat.
v. To quiver, vibrate, thrill.
v. To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verb-intransitive. To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To beat or throb, as the heart or a blood-vessel; contract and dilate in alternation or rhythmically, as the heart in systole and diastole, the disk of a jellyfish in swimming, the vacuoles in some protozoans, etc.
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v. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
v. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
v. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
Word Usage
"· Feature: made the "pulsate" effect aware of the time, especially enabled"