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impulse
/ˈɪmpəls/
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What does impulse mean?
noun
- A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
- A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
- The integral of force over time.
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verb
- To impel; to incite.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪmpəls/
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These women evidently relied on numbers, not so much as a drilled force but as a multitude actuated by a common impulse.
Under that impulse she had made her choice, and had chosen, as it now appeared, the more wretched alternative of the two.
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Is it your opinion that men’s acts proceed from one central and unchanging and inalterable impulse, or from a variety of impulses?
It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.
He put it that way that she might not think he had yielded to an impulse of which his head would disapprove.