English
pulsable
From pulse + -able.
Formed from pulse + -able
Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘to beat, strike’
Latin pulsus ‘beat, impulse, pulse, stroke’
Old French pous
Anglo-Norman puls
Middle English pulse ‘regular beat of arteries, pulse’
English pulse
Today it means
adj Able to be activated in pulses.
Sources
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