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Impulse vs Implode - What's the difference?

impulse | implode |

As verbs the difference between impulse and implode

is that impulse is to impel; to incite while implode is to collapse or burst inward violently.

As a noun impulse

is a thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.

impulse

English

(wikipedia impulse)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
  • * S. Clarke
    • All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse .
  • A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
    • The impulse to learn drove me to study night and day.
    When I saw the new dictionary, I couldn't resist the impulse to browse through it.
  • * Dryden
    • These were my natural impulses for the undertaking.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse , but it may have been a momentary one,
  • (physics) The integral of force over time.
    • The total impulse from the impact will depend on the kinetic energy of the bullet.

    Derived terms

    * impulse buy * nerve impulse * on impulse

    Related terms

    * impel * impulsion * impulsive * impulsively * impulsiveness * impulsor * pulse

    References

    * * * [ impulse in the Online Etymology Dictionary]

    Verb

    (impuls)
  • (obsolete) To impel; to incite.
    • (Alexander Pope)
    ----

    implode

    English

    Verb

    (implod)
  • To collapse or burst inward violently.
  • (computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
  • * 1992 , "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.'' (on newsgroup ''comp.compression )
    • I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work

    Antonyms

    * (collapse) explode * (compress data) explode