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prepulse

noun

Etymology

From pre- + pulse.

  1. derived from *pel-✻ — “dust; flour”
  2. derived from πόλτος — “porridge made from flour”
  3. derived from puls — “meal (coarse-ground edible part of various grains); porridge”
  4. derived from pous
  5. derived from pouls
  6. derived from pus
  7. inherited from pols
  8. inherited from puls — “(collectively) seeds of a leguminous plant used as food; leguminous plants collectively; a species of leguminous plant”
  9. prefixed as prepulse — “pre + pulse”

Definitions

  1. A weak pulse (stimulus) that inhibits a reaction to a subsequent stronger one

  2. To produce such a pulse

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prepulse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA