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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
impulse/ˈɪmpʌls/
▶noun
- 1 a sudden strong and unreflective urge to act.
- 2 an impetus.
- 3 a pulse of electrical energy; a brief current.
- 4 Physics a force acting briefly on a body and producing a change of momentum.
– origin C17 (earlier (ME) as impulsion), as a verb in the sense ‘give an impulse to’, from L. impuls-, impellere (see impel).
'impulses' also found in these Oxford entries:
afferent
- Ampakine
- axon
- cochlea
- dendrite
- efferent
- electrophysiology
- GABA
- geniculate body
- id
- information
- information theory
- loudspeaker
- motor cortex
- motor nerve
- motor neuron
- myogenic
- nerve
- nerve gas
- nervous system
- neuron
- optic nerves
- organ of Corti
- potentiation
- retina
- sense organ
- synapse
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