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Results for: "impulse"

Translating from English to Hungarian

Translations:

impulse
→ indíték; ösztönös cselekvés
impulse
→ impulzus

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (6)

1. an instinctive motive;
- Example: "profound religious impulses"
[syn: urge, impulse]

2. a sudden desire;
- Example: "he bought it on an impulse"
[syn: caprice, impulse, whim]

3. the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber;
- Example: "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"
[syn: nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulse]

4. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients);
- Example: "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
[syn: pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse]

5. the act of applying force suddenly;
- Example: "the impulse knocked him over"
[syn: impulse, impulsion, impetus]

6. an impelling force or strength;
- Example: "the car's momentum carried it off the road"
[syn: momentum, impulse]