Heartbeat

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  • noun. A single complete pulsation of the heart.
  • noun. A vital force or driving impulse.
  • noun. An instant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A pulsation of the heart, including one complete systole and diastole, corresponding to that motion in the arteries called the pulse.
  • noun. Hence Figuratively, a thought; an emotion, especially one that is tender or sad; a pang; a throb or throe of feeling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. the audible and palpable rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.
  • noun. immediately.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
  • noun. The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator
  • noun. A driving impulse or vital force.
  • noun. A very short space of time; an instant.
  • noun. A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an animating or vital unifying force
  • noun. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
  • noun. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
  • Word Usage
    "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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