Definition of impulse

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Impulse (n.) The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.

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Stimulative :: Stimulation (n.) The irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity; irritation..
Basilary :: Basilary (n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.
Motion :: Motion (n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
Instinctively :: Instinctively (adv.) In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse.
Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like..
Impulse :: Impulse (n.) A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will..
Syllable :: Syllable (n.) In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language..
Cant :: Cant (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant..
Incitement :: Incitement (n.) That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse..
Sound :: Sound (n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound..
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel..
Aesthesodic :: Aesthesodic (a.) Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.
Appulse :: Appulse (n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against..
Ejaculate :: Ejaculate (v. t.) To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer..
Rut :: Rut (v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc..
Self-moved :: Self-moved (a.) Moved by inherent power., without the aid of external impulse..
Shog :: Shog (n.) A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse.
Harmonics :: Harmonics (n.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones..
Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (v. t.) To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
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