Appulse

[ә'pʌls]

Definition

(n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.

(n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

Checker: Tanya

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Collision, meeting, coming together, striking together.

Typist: Wanda

Definition

n. a striking against: the approach of a planet to a conjunction with the sun or a star.—n. Appul′sion.—adj. Appul′sive.

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