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Definition of Appulse
1. n. A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.
Definition of Appulse
1. Noun. An energetic movement towards or against something ¹
2. Noun. (astronomy) conjunction or occultation ¹
3. Noun. (astronomy) a close approach of two heavenly bodies ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appulse
1. the approach of one moving body toward another [n -S]
Medical Definition of Appulse
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1. A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. "In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs." (Holder)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Appulse
Literary usage of Appulse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"Professor Thomson assigns to the sun's heat, supposing it to be maintained by
the appulse of masses of matter, a limit of 300000 years; and to the period of ..."
2. The Mathematical Theory of Eclipses According to Chauvenet's Transformation by Roberdeau Buchanan (1904)
"The analytical condition for an appulse is that the magnitude, equation (407),
is negative or J > L (410) that is the distance of the moon's limb is greater ..."
3. Sissano: Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia by William Churchill (1916)
"In bowwow the b and the w interpret an appulse which may best be rendered by labial
... That this appulse attains the k value is indicated by two words, ..."
4. An Introduction to Astronomy by Denison Olmsted (1856)
"When the moon's disk only comes in contact with the earth's shadow, as in figure
52, the phenomenon is called an appulse, when only a part of the disk ..."
5. The Alphabet of Nature: Or, Contributions Towards a More Accurate Analysis by Alexander John Ellis (1845)
"appulse, of the top of the tongue to the (1" top of the teeth; the breath being
... Top intercepting the breath, by an appulse to the bottom of the teeth, ..."
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