The pulse is the throbbing of arteries as an effect of the heartbeat. It can also mean:

In film and television:

• Pulse (1988 film), a horror film starring Cliff De Young
• Pulse (1995 film), a 1995 video by Pink Floyd also styled "P?U?L?S?E"
• Pulse (2001 film), a Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Pulse (2006 film), a 2006 American film starring Kristen Bell; a remake of the 2001 Japanese film
• Pulse (TV series), a videogame news program aired on G4TV
• Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey, an IMAX film
• Pulse, the US DVD box title of the 2003 film Octane (film)
• Pulse (TV channel), the rebranded name of XLEAGUE.TV
• Puls3 css phenomenon

In music:

• Pulse (music), series of beats in music
• Pulse (album), a 1995 live album by Pink Floyd also styled "P?U?L?S?E"
• Pulse (band), a dance music act
• Pulse (Front 242 album), an album by Front 242
• Pulse (Music Group), winners of the first series of DanceX
• "(square wave) Pulse" a 2001 single by electro-punk band The Mad Capsule Markets
• 'Pulse' (album), a 2008 album by The Back Horn
• Pulse/Pulsed, a single by British electronic group Fluke

In literature:

• The Pulse (comics), a Marvel Comics series
• Pulse (X-Men comics), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Pulse (book), a book by Robert Frenay
• Pulse (magazine) UK magazine for GPs/family doctors

In physics and mechanics:

• Pressure pulse, a pulse of high pressure you get from an explosion
• Pulse (physics), a single, abrupt emission of particles or radiation
• Pulse (signal processing), a concept in signal processing
• Electromagnetic pulse
• Pulsed power
• Pulse wave (also called pulse train)
• Pulse-width modulation
• Pulse jet engine and valveless pulse jet, two similar types of jet engine
• Nuclear pulse propulsion
• Pulse dialing

Other:

• Pulse Kick 'N Go, a two-wheeled scooter that incorporates a chain and kick pedal self-propulsion system
• Pulse (legume), a class of food crops
• Pulse (interbank network), the US interbank network and EFT association owned by Discover Financial
• PulseAudio (Computer Software), a GNU licensed sound server system
• Pulse (AIIMS), an inter-medical-college festival
• Plaxo Pulse, a social networking site
• Pulse Engineering (company), a company that makes transformers for signals and smps
• Shimizu S-Pulse, a Japanese football team playing in the J. League
• PULSE (P2PTV) (Peer-to-Peer Unstructured Live Streaming Experiment) is a P2PTV software

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