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impulse

/ˈɪmpəls/

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What does impulse mean?

noun

  1. A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
  2. A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
  3. The integral of force over time.
More meanings (1)

verb

  1. To impel; to incite.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɪmpəls/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˌɪmˈpʌls/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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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.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandProject Gutenberg ebook #32
Under that impulse she had made her choice, and had chosen, as it now appeared, the more wretched alternative of the two.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterProject Gutenberg ebook #33
More book examples (3)
Is it your opinion that men’s acts proceed from one central and unchanging and inalterable impulse, or from a variety of impulses?
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70
It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheusProject Gutenberg ebook #84
He put it that way that she might not think he had yielded to an impulse of which his head would disapprove.
Thomas HardyTess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure WomanProject Gutenberg ebook #110