📖 Определения и значения для слова impulse
📒 a sudden strong wish or need to do something, without stopping to think about the results
- He had a sudden impulse to stand up and sing.
- I resisted the impulse to laugh.
- Her first impulse was to run away.
📒 a force or movement of energy that causes something else to react
- nerve/electrical impulses
- The impulse is conducted along the length of the wire.
- Radio waves are converted into electrical impulses.
📒 something that causes somebody/something to do something or to develop and make progress
- to give an impulse to the struggling car industry
- He was motivated by the impulse for social reform.
- the political impulses towards joining a trade union