Definitions for impulse

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impulse im·pulse

Spelling: [im-puhls]

IPA: /ˈɪm pʌls/

Impulse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in impulse (eilmpsu).

Definitions for impulse

noun

1. the influence of a particular feeling, mental state, etc.:
2. sudden, involuntary inclination prompting to action:
3. an instance of this.
4. a psychic drive or instinctual urge.
5. an impelling action or force, driving onward or inducing motion.
6. the effect of an impelling force; motion induced; impetus given.
7. Physiology. a progressive wave of excitation over a nerve or muscle fiber, having either a stimulating or inhibitory effect.
8. Mechanics. the product of the average force acting upon a body and the time during which it acts, equivalent to the change in the momentum of the body produced by such a force.
9. Electricity. a single, usually sudden, flow of current in one direction.

adjective

1. marked by or acting on impulse:
2. bought or acquired on impulse:

Origin of impulse

1640-50; Latin impulsus pressure, impulse, equivalent to im- im-¹ + pul- (variant stem of pellere to push) + -sus, variant of -tu

Examples for impulse

As to whether the MRAP was an impulse buy, Ms. Kroemer assured me it was not.

In “Not What It Used To Be,” you write about talking to your younger self, which is an impulse I think many of us will understand.

And I was wondering how you combat that impulse to reject the young?

All at once an impulse of yielding which was really freedom came to her.

Let her think that your own impulse leads you, and then she will yield.

The question is not whether they are right or wrong but why they feel an impulse to dispense their advice in the first place.

The impulse of one billiard-ball is attended with motion in the second.

The impulse that had prompted him to hail her now prompted wild words.

The impulse to interpret seems to me what makes personal essay writing compelling.

Hope asked no questions, and hardly felt the impulse to inquire what had happened.