fibrillating
English edit
Etymology edit
From fibrillate + -ing.
Verb edit
fibrillating
- present participle and gerund of fibrillate
Adjective edit
fibrillating (comparative more fibrillating, superlative most fibrillating)
- Splitting into fibrils or fibres.
- Of a muscle, especially in the heart: undergoing fibrillation; quivering.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 107:
- A publicity plane flew along the Croisette, its pennant fluttering like the trace of a fibrillating heart, unnoticed by the sunbathers stretched in their loungers in the hotel concessions.