impulsion

From Middle English impulsioun, 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.
   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 369:

     Once they sit to talk, the Pilgrims lose the impulsion that has brought them so far, their confidence in their own crude strength.

• impulse
• impulsive
• 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

• arme à impulsion électrique
• pistolet à impulsion électrique

• “impulsion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.