impetus
IPA: ˈɪmpʌtʌs
noun
- Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
- A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.
- The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
- (history, medieval physics) A principle of motive force, held as exquivalent to weight times velocity by John Buridan, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by John Philoponus, 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.
- An activity in response to a stimulus.
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Examples of "impetus" in Sentences
- The impetus is on the proposer to do the convincing.
- The impetus for the broker definition is commissions.
- That was the impetus for the article in the first place.
- The impetus for this was the subject's addition to the list.
- The JFK audio tapes suggest strongly that early on JFK was the main impetus behind putting Apollo on the fast track.
- As with most Walmart programs, the clear impetus is to claim a share of consumer spending: first for organics, now for locally grown food.
- And the impetus is not just towards symbolic formulation, towards derivative product, but towards definition, towards the coherence it offers.
- If we all want to see more manga being recognized, then the impetus is on manga industry pros and fans to create and fund our own respectable manga award.
- Every possible stone needs to be turned to ensure that money resting idly in bank accounts is put to better use in the context of the short term impetus that the economy requires.
- Medieval guilds were endowed with the right to combine and make their own regulations -- precisely this impetus is behind the MFA system's retreat from the world of unabashed capitalism (also known as "reality" in the industrialized world).
- While progress derived its main impetus from the sex-passion, and the highest emotions were those that held us together in the family relation, such education and such surroundings as fostered and intensified these emotions were naturally the best.
- Where I differ from Einstein is that he conceives this quantity which I call the impetus as merely expressing the characters of the space and time to be adopted and thus ends by talking of the gravitational field expressing a curvature in the space-time manifold.