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impetus
impetus is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.
- 2noun
Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.
- 3noun
The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.
- 4noun
the act of applying force suddenly
"the impulse knocked him over"
- 5noun
a force that moves something along
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