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Noun
- an impelling force or strength
- the car's momentum carried it off the road
- the act of applying force suddenly
- the impulse knocked him over
- (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
- the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber
- they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus
- a sudden desire
- he bought it on an impulse
- an instinctive motive
- profound religious impulses