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. • The rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health. • A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs. • The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat. • An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time. • A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting. • The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats. • A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc. • Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”). • A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse. • A timed, coordinated connection, when multiple public transportation vehicles are at a hub at the same time so that passengers can flexibly connect between them.