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

Pulse, The Pulse or Pulses may also refer to:

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

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

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)