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Impulse \Im"pulse\, n. [L. impulsus, fr. impellere. See
Impel.]
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1. The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force;
impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to
produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
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All spontaneous animal motion is performed by
mechanical impulse. --S. Clarke.
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2. The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a
sudden or momentary force.
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3. (Mech.) The action of a force during a very small interval
of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a
sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.
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4. 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; to buy something on impulse.
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These were my natural impulses for the undertaking.
--Dryden.

Syn: Force; incentive; influence; motive; feeling;
incitement; instigation.
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Impulse \Im*pulse"\, v. t. [See Impel.]
To impel; to incite. [Obs.] --Pope.
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impulse
n 1: an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses" [syn:
urge, impulse]

2: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse" [syn:
caprice, impulse, whim]

3: the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber;
"they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the
cortex to the hypothalamus" [syn: nerve impulse, {nervous
impulse}, neural impulse, impulse]

4: (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical
state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations
seemed to be coming from a star" [syn: pulsation,
pulsing, pulse, impulse]

5: the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him
over" [syn: impulse, impulsion, impetus]

6: an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried
it off the road" [syn: momentum, impulse]
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impulse [impʌls]
Anstoß; Impuls; Trieb (Antrieb)

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impulse [impʌls]
impulsion; incitation

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impulse

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impulzus
indítás
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lökés
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impulse [impʌls]
aandrift; drang; aandrang; impuls; opwelling; stuwing

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impulse [impʌls]
arranco, impulso

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impulse [impʌls]
instinto

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impulse

Anstoß m; Impuls m
impulse

Anstoß m
impulse

Impuls m
impulse

Trieb m (Antrieb)
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Impulse
pl
impulses
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81 Moby Thesaurus words for "impulse":
actuation, archetypal pattern, archetype, atomic power,
automatic writing, automatism, blind impulse, catalyst,
collective unconscious, compulsion, compulsiveness, conditioning,
constraint, drive, echolalia, echopraxia, electric power,
electropower, excitant, exigency, forwardness, goad, haste,
hastiness, horsepower, hydraulic power, hydroelectric power, id,
impetus, impulsion, impulsiveness, inborn proclivity, incentive,
incitation, incitement, instinct, instinctiveness, involuntariness,
jet power, libido, lust, manpower, motivation, natural instinct,
natural tendency, nuclear power, overhastiness, passion, pinch,
piston power, precipitation, precociousness, precocity,
prematureness, prematurity, press, pressure, primitive self,
propulsion, push, rash impulse, reflex action, rocket power, rush,
sheer chemistry, solar power, spur, steam power, stimulant, stress,
subconscious urge, thermonuclear power, thrust, unlearned capacity,
unreasoning impulse, untimeliness, unwilledness, urge, urgency,
vital impulse, water power



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