Vibration vs. Pulse

Vibrationnoun

The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.

Pulsenoun

(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.

Vibrationnoun

(physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.

Pulsenoun

A beat or throb.

Vibrationnoun

A single complete vibrating motion.

Pulsenoun

(music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.

Vibrationnoun

(slang) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere; vibes.

Pulsenoun

An autosoliton

Vibrationnoun

The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.

‘As a harper lays his open palmUpon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.’;

Pulsenoun

Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.

Vibrationnoun

A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.

Pulseverb

To beat, to throb, to flash.

‘In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light.’;

Vibrationnoun

the act of vibrating

Pulseverb

To flow, particularly of blood.

‘Hot blood pulses through my veins.’;

Vibrationnoun

a distinctive emotional atmosphere; sensed intuitively;

‘it gave me a nostalgic vibe’; ‘that man gives off bad vibes’;

Pulseverb

To emit in discrete quantities.

Vibrationnoun

a shaky motion;

‘the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe’;

Pulsenoun

Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

‘If all the worldShould, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse.’;

Vibrationnoun

(physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

Pulsenoun

The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

Vibration

Vibration is a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur about an equilibrium point. The word comes from Latin vibrationem ().

‘shaking, brandishing’;

Pulsenoun

Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.

‘The measured pulse of racing oars.’; ‘When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke.’; ‘the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second.’;

Pulseverb

To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

Pulseverb

To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

Pulsenoun

(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients);

‘the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star’;

Pulsenoun

the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;

‘he could feel the beat of her heart’;

Pulsenoun

the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health

Pulsenoun

edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)

Pulseverb

expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically;

‘The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it’;

Pulseverb

produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses;

‘pulse waves’; ‘a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube’;

Pulseverb

drive by or as if by pulsation;

‘A soft breeze pulsed the air’;

Pulse

In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the cardiac cycle (heartbeat) by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed near the surface of the body, such as at the neck (carotid artery), wrist (radial artery), at the groin (femoral artery), behind the knee (popliteal artery), near the ankle joint (posterior tibial artery), and on foot (dorsalis pedis artery).