impulsion

Borrowed from Old French impulsion, from Latin impulsio, impulsionem.

impulsion (countable and uncountable, plural impulsions)

1. The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.
2. Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.

• impulse
• impulsive
• impulsively
• impulsiveness
• impulsor

• impulsion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impulsion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Borrowed from Latin impulsio, impulsionem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃/

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impulsion f (plural impulsions)

1. impulse
2. impulsion, drive, impetus
3. (physics) electric pulse, momentum

• “impulsion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).