What does IMPuLSe mean?

Definitions for IMPuLSe
ˈɪm pʌlsim·pulse

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. urge, impulsenoun

    an instinctive motive

    "profound religious impulses"

  2. caprice, impulse, whimnoun

    a sudden desire

    "he bought it on an impulse"

  3. nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulsenoun

    the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber

    "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"

  4. pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulsenoun

    (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"

  5. impulse, impulsion, impetusnoun

    the act of applying force suddenly

    "the impulse knocked him over"

  6. momentum, impulsenoun

    an impelling force or strength

    "the car's momentum carried it off the road"

GCIDE

  1. Impulsenoun

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. impulsenoun

    A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.

  2. impulsenoun

    A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one.

  3. impulsenoun

    The integral of force over time.

    The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the bullet.

  4. Etymology: From impulsus.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. IMPULSEnoun

    Etymology: impulsus, Latin.

    If these little impulses set the great wheels of devotion on work, the largeness and height of that shall not at all be prejudiced by the smalness of its occasion. Robert South, Sermons.

    Bodies produce ideas in us manifestly by impulse. John Locke.

    Bodies, from the impulse of a fluid, can only gravitate in proportion to their surfaces, and not according to their quantity of matter, which is contrary to experience. George Cheyne.

    Mean time, by Jove's impulse, Mezentius arm'd,
    Succeeded Turnus. John Dryden, Æn.

    These were my natural impulses for the undertaking; but there was an accidental motive, which was full as forcible. Dry.

    Moses saw the bush burn without being consumed, and heard a voice out of it: this was something, besides finding an impulse upon his mind to go to Pharaoh, that he might bring his brethren out of Egypt. John Locke.

    Like two great rocks against the raging tide,
    Unmov'd the two united chiefs abide,
    Sustain th' impulse, and receive the war. Matthew Prior.

ChatGPT

  1. impulse

    Impulse is a physical concept defined as the integral of a force over a time interval, effectively measuring the change in momentum of an object when the object is subject to a force for an interval of time. It is a vector quantity equal to the force applied to an object times the duration the force was applied. It is usually represented by the symbol 'J'.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Impulsenoun

    the act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately

  2. Impulsenoun

    the effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force

  3. Impulsenoun

    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

  4. Impulsenoun

    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

  5. Impulseverb

    to impel; to incite

  6. Etymology: [See Impel.]

Wikidata

  1. Impulse

    In classical mechanics, impulse is defined as the integral of a force with respect to time, which gives you the change in the momentum of the body being acted on by the force. A force causes acceleration, a change in the velocity of the body, for as long as it acts. A force applied over a long time therefore produces a bigger change in momentum than the same force applied briefly: the change in momentum is equal to the product of force and time. Conversely, a small force applied for a long time can produce the same change in momentum - the same impulse - as a large force applied briefly. The SI unit of impulse is the newton second; the quantity of impulse is force × time interval, or in shorthand notation:

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Impulse

    im′puls, n. the act of impelling: effect of an impelling force: force suddenly communicated: influence on the mind.—n. Impul′sion, impelling force: instigation.—adj. Impuls′ive, having the power of impelling: actuated by mental impulse: (mech.) acting by impulse: not continuous.—adv. Impuls′ively.—n. Impuls′iveness. [L. impulsus, pressure—impellĕre.]

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Impulse

    (a) An electro-magnetic impulse is the impulse produced upon the luminiferous ether by an oscillatory discharge or other varying type of current; the impulse is supposed to be identical, except as regards wave-length, with a light wave. (b) An electro-motive impulse is the electro-motive force which rises so high as to produce an impulsive or oscillatory discharge, such as that of a Leyden jar.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. impulse

    The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; the action of a force so as to produce motion suddenly, or without appreciable loss of time. Also sudden motion exciting to action; hasty inclination; influence acting unexpectedly, or with momentary force; impression; instigation; as, the troops moved forward with one impulse.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'IMPuLSe' in Nouns Frequency: #2785

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of IMPuLSe in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of IMPuLSe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of IMPuLSe in a Sentence

  1. Kevin Cramer:

    Please resist the impulse to respond to the very loud noise in your left ear. I’m happy to be the loud noise in your right ear, when it comes to being one of the cool crowd, I know the pressure that you feel. I’m sorry that sometimes those of us on the conservative side aren’t as activist-oriented. But I want to help you.

  2. Kabbalah:

    The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.

  3. Robert Collier:

    Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

  4. Christoph Bals:

    Seven months after the successful climate summit in Paris the government is capitulating to the interests of the fossil fuel industry and missing the chance to give the economy a modernization impulse by presenting clear plans.

  5. Bertrand Piccard:

    More than an achievement in the history of aviation, Solar Impulse has made history in energy, i’m sure that within the next 10 years we’ll see electric airplanes carrying 50 passengers on short- to medium-haul flights.

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