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Definitions of impulse
  1. noun
    the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber
    "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"
  2. noun
    an impelling force or strength

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  3. noun
    a sudden desire
    "he bought it on an impulse"

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  4. noun
    the act of applying force suddenly
    "the impulse knocked him over"

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  5. noun
    an instinctive motive
    "profound religious impulses"

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  6. noun
    (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

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Definition that contains impulse
  • fire generate an electrical impulse
  • sex all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses
  • suddenly on impulse; without premeditation
  • shock a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
  • complex (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
  • isolation (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
  • fling a brief indulgence of your impulses
  • impulsive proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
  • impulsive determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
  • suppress consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
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