fibrillating
English
Etymology
From fibrillate + -ing.
Verb
fibrillating
Adjective
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 2011, p. 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.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 107: