(a.) Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
(a.) Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings.
(a.) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous; -- said of forces.
(n.) That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(2) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(3) All endings were electrotonically coupled to the M-cell, but impulses in less than 20% of the afferents produced chemically mediated excitatory postsynaptic potentials as well.
(4) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
(5) Response to a single, 5-mg dose of methylphenidate was compared in aggressive and nonaggressive attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children using objective measures of inattention, impulsivity, and activity level.
(6) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
(7) It is concluded that ADHD is a developmental disorder of attention, impulse control, and regulation of activity level that requires multiple treatment methods, which must be applied over long time intervals if they are to produce an impact on the outcome of children with ADHD.
(8) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(9) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
(10) When afferent impulses were recorded from this fine nerve simultaneously with the blood pressure, two kinds of activity were observed.
(11) ADHD refers to a combination of symptoms in the general areas of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
(12) Immediately after the onset of a current step the impulse frequency still declines.
(13) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(14) Mild amelioration of sleep-wakefulness cycles and impulse and drive functions could be observed clinically in both groups.
(15) It is concluded that a number of mechanisms can account for the conduction failure resulting from phospholipase A2, including disruption of sodium channels needed for propagation of regenerative nerve impulses and the depletion of high energy phosphates needed to maintain ionic gradients.
(16) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
(17) Treadmill acceleration impulses were backwards or forwards directed, or their direction was inverted after 30 ms. Backwards directed impulses were followed by gastrocnemius and forwards directed ones by tibialis anterior EMG responses (latency 65-75 ms) whose duration depended on impulse duration.
(18) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(19) Linear phase finite impulse response (FIR) filtering can be used to differentiate auditory brainstem evoked potentials (ABEP) components.
(20) In the pulsed mode, impulse duration and pause duration were varied between 50 and 500 ms. Total duration of coagulation was 30 s in all cases.
Madcap
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
(a.) Wild; reckless.
(n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
(2) This madcap scheme is completely contrary to Medicare,” Abbott said at the time .
(3) Like American Hustle, another madcap 70s period piece which it somewhat resembles, it could be a shoo-in for major awards come 2015.
(4) For all that, the Help to Buy scheme vividly demonstrates the madcap world of British housing finance.
(5) He soon transferred to presenting and built up a reputation for a madcap approach that was somewhat constrained by BBC management.
(6) This is not a document full of whizzy graphics and madcap ideas.
(7) The government should pull the plug on these madcap 'offsetting' plans and get on with delivering its commitments to protect and boost wildlife through better planning."
(8) Even if you hate me, please don’t take Labour over the cliff edge | Tony Blair Read more Such is the public indifference to events beyond Britain’s borders that a politician can hold almost any madcap belief on foreign affairs and get away with it.
(9) Whether it’s the slapstick drag of Mrs Doubtfire, the frenetic voice of the Genie, or the thorax shaking screams from Good Morning, Vietnam there is so much comedy that we don’t need to remember the madcap exec who was Sarah Michelle Gellar’s father.
(10) Even then a madcap day was not done with folly and frolic as France, on their own line, 20 points down and with nothing at all to gain, tapped and ran.
(11) Near the Clignancourt flea market in northern Paris, it offers a madcap mix of DIY workshops, €12 dinners on global themes, screenings and cocktails beside the old train tracks.
(12) Nothing went our way, but now we have to raise our heads because life goes on.” “It was unbelievable, and incredible things happened which we will be unable to explain for the rest of our lives,” said Manchester City’s Fernandinho, a member of the two-man midfield that had been so horribly outnumbered and overrun during that madcap first period.
(13) So maybe it is appropriate that the madcap black crime comedy American Hustle has emerged as the big winner of the Globes with its three awards: for best comedy or musical, and best actress and best supporting actress (comedy or musical) for Amy Adams and the all-conquering Jennifer Lawrence.
(14) At the photo shoot for this piece she gamely tries on outfit after outfit of streetwear, looking like a small but ferocious superhero, the type of no-nonsense heroine who’s as at home with a snappy retort as a swift roundhouse kick, and the perfect companion for Capaldi’s madcap incarnation of the Doctor.
(15) In the opera categories the English National Opera won best new opera production for Handel's Partenope, the madcap cross-dressing comedy of errors transposed from ancient Naples to the roaring 20s.
(16) Meanwhile Lord Adonis has called for the House of Lords to be moved "up north" , presumably to give custom to his other madcap idea, that £50bn be spent on HS2 .
(17) Weis also discusses whether, in their “madcap twenties”, Shakespeare and the more overtly gay Christopher Marlowe had an affair.
(18) Some competitors had travelled from Spain, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands to take part in the series of madcap races.
(19) The show's chaos, irreverence and broad wit would be a natural fit for Corden, whose equally madcap turn in One Man, Two Guvnors remains one of his most beloved roles.
(20) However, Bolton, despite losing their past five away league matches, arrived intent on attacking rather than containing and that made for an open, madcap contest.