intermittent pulse

But the little screen continued to show only gray static, with intermittent pulses of color.

Once activated, the beacon produced an intermittent pulse of blue light.

In intermittent pulses, it glowed orange and then white, like a hot steel wire.

The intermittent pulse gave her the willies.

He heard the humming of the central air conditioner, the intermittent pulses of medical equipment in adjoining labs, but that was all.

The thousand years following the mid-first millennium BC saw serious, intermittent pulses of soil erosion in numerous places.

Some shower heads can be adjusted to spray different patterns of water, such as massage, gentle spray, strong spray, and intermittent pulse or combination modes.

Ú "It subsumes," Clavain said quietly, as if wary-despite the intermittent pulses of music-of alerting the machinery.

The card can then emit "different tones or phrases" or "intermittent pulses of light or light pulses produced according to a predetermined pattern."

A TWA shuttle, probably the one that Gina had arrived on, was puffing away, nudged by brief, intermittent pulses of its auxiliary thrusters.

Peggy had given them their tea; she took temperatures and the feeble intermittent pulses, helped them to wash, combed their grey hair and sat them up in their beds.

As he looks back to his left, as he takes in and ignores another zzzzzppp for a dead bloodsucking flowerfly, he can sense the intermittent pulses of chaos in the cupridium cables that link the crystal wards.

A flywheel may also be used to supply intermittent pulses of energy at transfer rates that exceed the abilities of its energy source, or when such pulses would disrupt the energy supply (e.g., public electric network).