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Impulse
ˈɪmpʌls
Impulse definitions
noun
impulse
impulses
- a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act
"I had an almost irresistible impulse to giggle"
- the tendency to act impulsively
"he was a man of impulse, not premeditation"
- something that causes something to happen or happen more quickly; an impetus
"an added impulse to this process of renewal"
- a pulse of electrical energy; a brief current
"nerve impulses"
- a force acting briefly on a body and producing a finite change of momentum
"ability to communicate motion by impulse"
- a change of momentum produced by an impulse, equivalent to the average value of the force multiplied by the time during which it acts