heart rate

noun

: the rate at which the heart beats
Aerobic exercise increases your heart rate.

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Pick Up the Pace Walking becomes cardio when your heart rate rises, and the simplest way to make that happen is by picking up speed. Jakob Roze, Health, 25 Dec. 2025 Apple’s smallest-ever heart rate sensor pulses invisible light into the ear at a rate of 256 times per second to deliver accurate workout metrics without a chest strap. Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2025 The new approach, called Pulse-Fi, uses an AI model to analyze heartbeats to estimate heart rate in real time from up to 10 feet away. Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2025 Rustling bushes would interrupt my heavy breathing every few minutes, sending my heart rate spiking. Julia Sullivan, Outside, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heart rate

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“Heart rate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart%20rate. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.

Medical Definition

heart rate

noun
: a measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as number of beats per minute see maximum heart rate
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