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Plural of pulse

regular plural

The plural of pulse is pulses.

Forms of pulse

Singularpulse /pʌls/
Pluralpulses
Countablecountable

Pulses in a sentence

  • A thin ruby crystal is illuminated by two successive intense short pulses of coherent light, t seconds apart, obtained from a ruby-laser source.1969, “[Scientific Progress in F[iscal] Y[ear] 69: Electronics] The Photon Echo”, in Jacob Seiden, editor, OAR Progress for 1969 (OAR...
  • Wild nuts, peas, vetch, a legume which had edible seed pods, and grasses were often combined with pulses like beans or lentils, the most commonly identified ingredient, and at times, wild mustard.2022 November 22, Katie Hunt, “Neanderthals cooked meals with pulses 70,000 years ago”, in CNN
  • The electrifying beat sent pulses of energy through my body.From the entry pulses
  • We measured the duration, interelement interval, peak frequency and bandwidth of echolocation pulses and distress syllables.2015 July 17, “Situational and Age-Dependent Decision Making during Life Threatening Distress in Myotis macrodactylus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry interelement
  • The study indicated that field intensities of radarlike pulses above some threshold can disrupt normal pacemaker function.2013, James C. Lin, Sol M. Michaelson, Biological Effects and Health Implications of Radiofrequency Radiation, Springer Science & Business…. From the entry radarlike

Meaning of pulse

  1. noun A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the qualitative nature of this beat.
  2. noun The rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
  3. noun A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.

Full definition of pulse

Questions about the plural of pulse

What is the plural of pulse?
The plural of pulse is pulses.
Is pulse countable?
Pulse is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulse (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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