Noun: impulse
| Singular | impulse |
| Plural | impulses |
Sample Sentences
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c. 1715-1716, Samuel Clarke, letter to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse.
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The impulse to learn drove me to study night and day.
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When I saw the new book, I couldn't resist the impulse to browse through it.
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Theſe were my natural Impulses for the undertaking: […] [1685, John Dryden, transl., “Preface”, in Sylvæ: Or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, page 16:]
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Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one,[…].” [1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:]
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An impulse urged him to plant a sudden blow on it, by he forced himself to consider the impolicy of such an act. [1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 218:]
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The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the projectile.
Nouns inflected like impulse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French impulser, from Latin impulsus. See: Latin Nouns '
impulsus'.
Verbs referencing "impulse"
Finnish Nouns
impulssi.