appulse

appulse has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.
• n.. The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.