Look up impetus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Impetus may refer to: A source of motivation Theory of impetus, a concept similar to inertia and momentum...

The impetus is a ballroom dance step used in the waltz, foxtrot or quickstep. The open impetus is one of several ways to get into promenade position and...

Impetus is a reissue of the EP Passive Restraints by the band Clutch in 1997. The EP has two tracks added to it from the Naive album, a compilation of...

The theory of impetus is an auxiliary or secondary theory of Aristotelian dynamics, put forth initially to explain projectile motion against gravity....

which would oppose its impetus. Buridan also maintained that impetus increased with speed; thus, his initial idea of impetus was similar in many ways...

seeds of the Copernican Revolution in Europe. He developed the concept of impetus, the first step toward the modern concept of inertia and an important development...

The arts". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 July 2018. The early impetus of Bulgarian traditions in the arts was cut short by the Ottoman occupation...

the end of the Cold War, the push for human rights action took on new impetus. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights was formed in 1993 to oversee...

the Icelandic Commonwealth. The lack of arable land also served as an impetus to the settlement of Greenland starting in 986. The period of these early...

the eighteenth century, and the loss of these colonies in 1783 was the impetus to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay. Proponents of colonisation also...