Impact and Pulse

Impact

Impact noun - A forceful coming together of two things.

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Pulse and impact are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pulse" instead a noun "Impact".

Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless

Pulse noun - A rhythmic expanding and contracting.

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Impact and pulse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Impact" instead a noun "Pulse".

Nearby Words: pulsate, pulsation, pulsed, pulsated, pulsing

high	high impact	high pulse
low	low impact	low pulse
natural	natural impact	natural pulse
single	single impact	single pulse
Other adjectives: strong, powerful, massive, large, huge, little, last, resulting, bigger.

Short Circuit has military robots armed with shoulder-mounted "lasers" that are actually more of an explosive "pulse" than a typical Hollywood laser, needing to charge up and causing whatever it hits to blow up spectacularly immediately upon impact.

Source: Frickin' Laser Beams
The pulse machine guns equipped on the Striders and Gunships don't disintegrate their targets but their impact does release a small amount of the particles that come off disintegrating targets, implying that they still work by disintegration, but on a much smaller level.

Source: Disintegrator Ray
Unreal Tournament has at least two weapons adapted from mining tools: The Impact Hammer (a pneumatic drill) and the Pulse Gun (specifically its alternate fire, a cutting torch).

Source: Improvised Weapon / Video Games

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