pulsationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pʌlˈseɪʃn̩/
• (米国発音) IPA: /pəlˈseɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

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.]
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     Lo! as a dove when up she springs
     ⁠To bear thro’ Heaven a tale of woe,
     ⁠Some dolorous message knit below
     The wild pulsation of her wings;
     Like her I go; I cannot stay;
     ⁠I leave this mortal ark behind […]

3. (botany) The rhythmic increase and decrease of size in naked zoospores and plasmodia.
4. (now rare) Physical striking; a blow. [from 17th c.]
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

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

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

アナグラム

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