impulse

impulse has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
• n.. The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.
• n.. The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.
• n.. A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.
• v. t.. To impel; to incite.
• n.. the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over"
• n.. an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road"
• n.. the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"
• n.. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
• n.. a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"
• n.. an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses"