What does heartbeat mean?

Definitions for heartbeat
ˈhɑrtˌbitheart·beat

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word heartbeat.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beatnoun

    the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

    "he could feel the beat of her heart"

  2. blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minutenoun

    a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

    "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"

  3. heartbeatnoun

    an animating or vital unifying force

    "New York is the commercial heartbeat of America"

Wiktionary

  1. heartbeatnoun

    One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.

  2. heartbeatnoun

    The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator

    If your heartbeat doesn't normalize soon, consult a doctor!

  3. heartbeatnoun

    A driving impulse or vital force.

    Music is the heartbeat of the people.

  4. heartbeatnoun

    A very short space of time; an instant.

    The ambulance arrived in a heartbeat.

  5. heartbeatnoun

    A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.

  6. Etymology: From heart + beat.

Wikipedia

  1. Heartbeat

    Heartbeat is a song by K-pop band 2PM. It was released on November 10, 2009, as the lead single for 01:59PM.

ChatGPT

  1. heartbeat

    A heartbeat is a physical and rhythmic pulsation that occurs in the heart, where the heart contracts and pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. This phenomenon is essential for providing the necessary oxygen, nutrients, and removal of waste products throughout the body. It is also used as a measure of the heart's health and functioning. The frequency of the heartbeat, often measured in beats per minute (bpm), defines an individual's heart rate.

Wikidata

  1. Heartbeat

    Heartbeat is a British police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire and broadcast on ITV in 18 series between 1992 and 2010. It was made by ITV Studios at the Leeds Studios and on location. Heartbeat first aired on Friday 10 April 1992. The 372nd and final episode aired on Sunday 12 September 2010. Heartbeat proved popular from the beginning, when early series consistently drew over 10 million viewers. In its first year Heartbeat averaged 14.5 million viewers and was regularly in the top five TV programmes across all British channels. It even scored higher figures than the perennially popular soap opera Coronation Street. In 2001 Heartbeat came sixth in the UK TV ratings list with a peak audience of 13.82 million and it was sixth again in 2003 with 12.8 million viewers. In autumn 2008 typical viewing figures were around 6 million per episode. Originally conceived as a vehicle for Nick Berry, around whom early series were centred, the show has seen many characters come and go over the years. The final series starred Derek Fowlds, William Simons, Tricia Penrose, David Lonsdale, Peter Benson, Steven Blakeley, John Duttine, Gwen Taylor, Lisa Kay, Clare Wille, Joe McFadden, Rupert Ward-Lewis and Nikki Sanderson. Derek Fowlds and William Simons were the only main-cast actors who remained with the show over its entire 18-series run.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. heartbeat

    1. The signal emitted by a Level 2 Ethernet transceiver at the end of every packet to show that the collision-detection circuit is still connected. 2. A periodic synchronization signal used by software or hardware, such as a bus clock or a periodic interrupt. 3. The ‘natural’ oscillation frequency of a computer's clock crystal, before frequency division down to the machine's clock rate. 4. A signal emitted at regular intervals by software to demonstrate that it is still alive. Sometimes hardware is designed to reboot the machine if it stops hearing a heartbeat. See also breath-of-life packet.

CrunchBase

  1. Heartbeat

    Heartbeat Software Inc. provides enterprise marketing content management (MCM) and enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company focuses on presentation management, pitch book management, and Key Opinion Leader (KOL) management solutions. It offers KOL Database, a KOL management software that tracks KOL activity, KOL influence, KOL plans, and medical liaison interactions; and KOL communication Portals, a Web-based KOL facing portal for delivering presentations, documents, expenses, surveys, Webcasets, and other key data to KOLs. The company also provides Virtual Advisory Boards for conducting virtual advisory boards to interact with KOLs; Event Management that field sales people, brand managers, internal event managers, and external agencies; Presentation Management, a presentation management solution for medical affairs groups to manage various slide decks and other documents that are delivered to KOLs; and Heartbeat Presenter, an enterprise marketing and sales presentation management platform. In addition, it provides services, such as KOL identification and alerts, influence mapping, segmentation, planning, and surveying; and taxonomy and workflow consulting, template design, and inline integration. The company serves life sciences organizations, financial services industries, and sales forces. Heartbeat Software Inc. is based in New York, New York.

Editors Contribution

  1. heartbeat

    The rhythm of a heart.

    Her heartbeat obviously changes when she is on the treadmill.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 24, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of heartbeat in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of heartbeat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of heartbeat in a Sentence

  1. Dan Beutler.As:

    Being able to hear the heartbeat... we had this gut feeling of there has to be something -- I mean, a doctor may say it, but she's moving. That's pretty convincing. We know she's still alive.

  2. Christen Kuikoua:

    Love is like a dream you never wish to end, a magical journey where every moment feels like eternity, and every heartbeat whispers the promise of forever.

  3. Dennys Nieto:

    I suffer from asthma and pain in my lungs. It feels like I'm being hit in the lungs, headaches, inflammation and pain in my throat. And also I have erratic blood pressure and heartbeat.

  4. Sana Dabbas:

    You're never really alive until you skip a heartbeat, and you don't really skip a heartbeat until you see someone with a smile that lights up the whole room.

  5. Stephen Jackson:

    Stephen Jackson wanted to help George Floyds family and I let Stephen Jackson know that a house was what they needed at that time and Stephen Jackson made it happen in a heartbeat.

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