(n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.
(n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.
(n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
(2) Although major reforms are underway in many total institutions to humanize treatment procedures, innovative alternatives to custodial care are gaining impetus in the community.
(3) Thus shifts in the marital structure between 1961 and 1971 could have provided little impetus to a decline in the CBR of the country.
(4) The introduction and acceptance of percutaneous nephrostomy as a safe and effective alternative to surgical nephrostomy served as the impetus for the development and expansion of an ever-increasing number of techniques that are encompassed by the term "interventional uroradiology."
(5) Two concepts are presented which attempt to clarify the pathogenesis of FIPV and at the same time may serve as an impetus for further research.
(6) It is intended to provide you with an impetus to work within your state nurses' association to learn more.
(7) Second, the impetus for change may come from unexpected sources, including those high-flying corporate women, some of whom are beginning to show promising signs of rebellion.
(8) Appropriate effort toward minimizing insult of the right ventricle could result in significantly decreasing the incidence and severity of perioperative right ventricular failure before the impetus of the continuing clinical problem dictates improvement in techniques to more appropriately treat this frequently preventable problem.
(9) The relative clinical significance of lead III Q waves and the effect of inspiration has received added impetus after the finding that Q waves have predictive value for coronary artery disease and asynergy.
(10) This question provided the impetus for the descriptive study presented here.
(11) Nevertheless, the improvement in survival provides impetus to refine and improve the procedure so that survival can reach that attained by recipients of other major organ allografts.
(12) The impetus to discover cementless techniques for fixing implants to bone is the result of the high failure rates of cemented arthroplasty in young, active patients.
(13) The development and refinement of osseointegration have had primary impetus in treatment of the totally edentulous patient.
(14) Much of the impetus to the work has come from medical requirements.
(15) Enoxacin, in common with other new oral 4-quinolones, has a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity which includes most pulmonary pathogens (with the exception of Streptococcus pneumoniae, against which its activity is poor); this spectrum has provided the impetus for investigation of its potential in the treatment of respiratory infections.
(16) Renewable energy developers and green campaigners fear that without a similar target for 2030, the impetus to invest in renewables will be lost to fossil fuels such as gas .
(17) Brooks has long had an interest in research on the mind and the brain, but the impetus of The Social Animal came from an unlikely source.
(18) The impetus for this article was the observation of vestibular dysfunction in 15 clinical cases (12 dogs and 3 cats), in 8 of which it was confirmed that the ear canal had been rinsed with this drug combination in the presence of a ruptured tympanic membrane.
(19) The Oxford International Symposium on myocardial preservation provided an appropriate milestone and impetus to survey one aspect of operative myocardial preservation, namely blood cardioplegia, and to contrast it with the more popular crystalloid cardioplegia.
(20) Although assessment of families as guided by nursing conceptual models is gaining impetus in the field of nursing, the incorporation of psychometrically sound clinical research measures into assessment protocols is a relatively recent phenomenon in family health nursing.
Inspirit
Definition:
(v. t.) To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate.
Example Sentences:
(1) He grew Inspirit Brands from a fledgling marketing and distribution company into a multi-million pound business.