Usually means: Sudden, spontaneous urge to act.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. impulse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. impulse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impulse: Collins English Dictionary
  4. impulse: Vocabulary.com
  5. Impulse, impulse: Wordnik
  6. impulse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. impulse: Wiktionary
  8. impulse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. impulse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. impulse: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. impulse: Dictionary.com
  12. impulse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. impulse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Impulse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. impulse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. impulse: Rhymezone
  18. impulse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. impulse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. impulse: Free Dictionary
  21. impulse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. impulse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. impulse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. impulse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. impulse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Impulse (mechanics), Impulse (physics), impulse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Impulse (mechanics), Impulse (physics), impulse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Impulse (mechanics), Impulse (physics), impulse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. IMPULSE: Acronym Finder
  2. impulse: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Impulse: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Impulse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See impulsed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
noun:  A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
noun:  (physics) The integral of force over time.
verb:  (transitive) To impel; to incite.

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