EJDict
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日本語WordNet
an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses"
a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"
the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"
(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over"
an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road"
JMdict
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Impulse is a sudden strong urge to act without thinking.
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The professor observed that "what fools these mortals be" when analyzing irrational behaviors that contradicted self-interest, demonstrating that humans often act on impulse rather than reason despite intelligence.
教授は自己利益と矛盾する非合理的行動を分析するときに「これらの人間はなんと愚かであることか」と観察し、人間は知性にもかかわらずしばしば理性ではなく衝動に基づいて行動することを示した。
The nerve impulse triggered muscle contraction.
神経インパルスが筋収縮を引き起こしました。
Pronunciation data from ipa-dict (MIT License) based on cmudict-ipa by @lingz