impetus

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1) Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
 * The outbreak of World War II in 1939 gave a new impetus to receiver development.
 * 1) A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.
 * 2) The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
 * 3)  A principle of motive force, held as exquivalent to weight times velocity by, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by , describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics.
 * 4) An activity in response to a stimulus.
 * 1)  A principle of motive force, held as exquivalent to weight times velocity by, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by , describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics.
 * 2) An activity in response to a stimulus.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani:, stimul
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: sysäys
 * German:, , , Anschub,
 * Maori: āinga, kipakipa
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: імпульс, поштовх, стимул


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: impuls
 * Danish: drivkraft
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: sysäys
 * French:
 * German: Triebkraft
 * Norwegian: drivkraft
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: نیروی برانگیزنده
 * Portuguese:


 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: stimul
 * Dutch: drijvende kracht,
 * Finnish: liikevoima
 * German:, Anschub
 * Occitan:, estimulús
 * Persian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,


 * Dutch: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Occitan: ,

Etymology
From, from +.

Noun

 * 1) an attack, an assault, a charge
 * 2) a rapid motion
 * 3) impulse, vehemence, ardor, passion
 * 4) a making for
 * 1) impulse, vehemence, ardor, passion
 * 2) a making for
 * 1) a making for