A pulse, in physiology, is the throbbing of arteries resulting from heartbeat.

Pulse, The Pulse or Pulses may also refer to:

Botany

  • Pulse (legume), any agriculturally significant annual leguminous food crop, such as peas, beans, lentils, and chickpeas

Electronics and physics

  • Pulse (physics), a single disturbance through a transmission medium
  • Pulse (signal processing), a brief change from a baseline value
  • Pulse dialing, of a telephone

Books and publications

  • Pulse (magazine), a medical professional's magazine
  • Pulse! (magazine), a music magazine
  • Pulse (Augustus), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Pulse (short story collection), a short story collection by Julian Barnes
  • Pulse, a book by Robert Frenay
  • The Pulse, the signal transmitted from cell phones that made people go crazy in Stephen King's novel Cell
  • The Pulse (comics), a Marvel Comics series
  • Pulse (webtoon), a Lezhin Comics series

Film, television and games

Film

  • Pulse (1988 film), a horror film starring Cliff De Young
  • Pulse (1995 film), a video by the band Pink Floyd
  • Pulse (2001 film) or Kairo, a Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Octane (film), a 2002 thriller film released in the U.S. as Pulse
  • Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey, a 2002 short documentary
  • Pulse (2006 film), an American remake of the 2001 Japanese film
  • Pulse, a 2010 British TV film directed by James Hawes
  • Pulse (2017 film), an Australian film
  • Pulse, a 2021 Ukrainian biographical sports film about the life of Oksana Boturchuk
  • Pulse Films, a film company headquartered in London

Radio

  • Pulse 1, an independent FM radio station in West Yorkshire, England
  • Pulse 2, an independent AM radio station in West Yorkshire, England
  • Pulse! Radio, a student-run radio station at the London School of Economics, England
  • KVIT is a Mesa, Arizona-based, student-run radio station operated by the East Valley Institute of Technology that is branded The Pulse
  • WKJO (FM), a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Smithfield, North Carolina, which was called Pulse 102 from 2010 to 2014
  • WKXU (FM), a radio station (102.5 FM) licensed to Hillsborough, North Carolina, which was called Pulse FM from 2010 to 2022
  • WPLW-FM, a radio station (96.9 FM) licensed to Goldsboro, North Carolina, which is called Pulse FM
  • WTPL, a radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to Hillsboro, New Hampshire, which is called The Pulse of NH
  • WEMJ, a radio station (1490 AM) licensed to Laconia, New Hampshire, which simulcasts WTPL
  • WTSN (AM), a radio station (1270 AM) licensed to Dover, New Hampshire, which simulcasts WTPL
  • 94.7 The Pulse, an Australian community radio station from Geelong, Victoria
  • The Pulse (SiriusXM), a hot AC channel on Sirius XM Radio
  • The Pulse (Sirius), the original Sirius incarnation on Channel 9 until November 12, 2008
  • Sounds of the Seasons: The Pulse, a Music Choice ambient music channel
  • The Pulse (radio), a college basketball program that aired on ESPN Radio
  • The Pulse, a health and science radio show on WHYY-FM
  • RTÉ Pulse, an Irish radio station

Television

  • Pulse (TV channel), a media stream based on video games and sports
  • Pulse (American TV program), a video game news program aired on G4TV
  • Pulse (Australian TV series), a 2017 drama lasting eight episodes
  • The Pulse (TV programme), RTHK English-language current affairs programme
  • Pulse (2025 TV series), a Netflix medical drama television series
  • "Pulse" (Bugs), a 1995 television episode

Video games

  • Pulse (video game), a 2011 music video game by Cipher Prime

Music

  • Pulse (music), a rhythmic succession of sounds

Groups

  • Pulse (American band), an American dance/house project
  • Pulse (UK band), a UK group, winners of the reality TV show Dance X
  • Twist and Pulse, an English street dance band
  • Pulse Percussion, a competitive indoor drumline that competes in WGI

Albums

  • Pulse (Greg Phillinganes album), 1984
  • Pulse (Megumi Hayashibara album), 1994
  • Pulse (Pink Floyd album), 1995
  • Pulse (Front 242 album), 2003
  • Pulse (Toni Braxton album), 2010
  • Pulse (Thomas Giles album), 2011
  • Pulses (Karmin album), 2014
  • Pulses (The Fast Feeling album), 2017

Songs

  • "Pulse" (song), by Fluke
  • "Pulse", a song by Erra from Augment
  • "Pulse", a song by Loop from Fade Out
  • "Pulse", a song by The Mad Capsule Markets from Osc-Dis
  • "Pulse", a song by Mushroomhead from A Wonderful Life
  • "Pulse", a song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from History of Modern
  • "Pulse", a song by The Psychedelic Furs from The Psychedelic Furs
  • "Pulse", a song by Nebula from Heavy Psych
  • "Pulse", a song by Skylar Grey from Don't Look Down

Technology

  • Pulse (ALM), a proprietary application lifecycle management technology
  • Pulse (app), a news aggregator app for Android and the iPad, now owned by LinkedIn
  • Pulse (interbank network), an electronic funds transfer network
  • PULSE (P2PTV), a peer-to-peer software
  • PULSE (Police Using Leading Systems Effectively), a computer system used by Irish police
  • Pulse Smartpen, a ballpoint pen, computer, and audio recorder manufactured by Livescribe
  • Novell Pulse, an enterprise collaboration software platform
  • T-Mobile Pulse, an Android phone manufactured by Huawei

Transportation

  • Fiat Pulse, a subcompact crossover SUV
  • GRTC Pulse, a bus rapid transit line in Richmond, Virginia
  • Pace Pulse, a bus rapid transit system in the Chicago metropolitan area
  • The Pulse, a three-wheeled electric vehicle prototype produced by Arcimoto
  • Renault Pulse, an Indian version of the supermini car Nissan Micra
  • UP Pulse, a German paraglider design
  • Pulse Litestar, a motorbike with aircraft-esque cockpit and outrigger wheels

Other uses

  • Pulse (festival), an annual cultural, literary, and sports festival of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India
  • PULSE (webtoon), a lesbian webcomic
  • Providing Urban Learners Success in Education (PULSE) High School, New York City
  • Pulse nightclub, an Orlando, Florida gay bar, dance club, and nightclub where a mass shooting occurred in June 2016
  • The Pulse (shopping mall), a shopping arcade in Repulse Bay, Hong Kong
  • PULSE, an interdisciplinary project at Boston College administered by the Lonergan Institute
  • Central Pulse, a New Zealand netball team based in Wellington

See also

  • Journal-News Pulse, a defunct weekly broadsheet newspaper founded in Mason, Ohio, US
  • Puls (disambiguation)