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/stˌɪmjəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Stimulation n.

The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.

(Physiol.) The irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity; irritation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... witness to the general's will. The business that was to have detained him but a few days has kept him these six weeks. I cannot account for his delay, unless his extravagant encomiums on the progress of a friend of yours has proved a stimulation to those of superior talents. He exaggerates exceedingly in extolling his pupils. Those whose expectations are raised from his description must ...

— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis

... food destined to produce in a measure the whipping-up which is useful, and sometimes indispensable to the system. We cannot here discuss the expediency of action and the harmlessness of the dose of substances reputed stimulating. But one can ask oneself whether, to attain this object of stimulation, carnivorous feeding is indispensable, and if vegetarianism ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... detrimental. Our higher moral faculties, like our higher intellectual ones, are comparatively complex. By consequence, they are both comparatively late in their evolution. And with the one as with the other, a very early activity produced by stimulation will be at the expense of the ...

— Children's Rights and Others • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... tried to run while he clung to my coat tails, and every step I felt the stinging grab of the beech. There is a little seam across my cheek today that marks a footfall of one of those whips. In a moment I was as wide awake as Uncle Eb and needed no more stimulation. ...

— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller

... are likely to boost commodity exports by 15% to $42.4 billion in 1995/96, according to government statistics. Short-term economic problems include a balancing of output growth and inflationary pressures and the stimulation of exports to ...

— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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