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Impetus

speaker

Meaning

Noun

Anything that
; a
factor.
A
, either
or
, that
; an impulse.
The
or energy associated with a
body; a stimulus.
In History & Physics:
A
of
,
as exquivalent to
by John Buridan, in an
of Aristotelian
by John Philoponus,
against
as
until it
to a
and the
to the
of
,
and
in
mechanics.
An
in
to a stimulus.
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Origin

impetus
English
arrow
impetus
Latin
arrow
impetere
Latin
impeto
Latin
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Etym
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