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stimulate (verb), stimulates; stimulated; stimulating
1. To excite in a manner that, if of sufficient magnitude, can elicit certain kinds of activity: The discussion Mike and his fellow students are having about future vocations stimulates him to want to prepare more for his future employment as a salesman.
2. To encourage or to arouse interest or enthusiasm in something: Tim's school offered courses that stimulated a passion for learning.
3. To cause something to happen or to develop: A raise in worker wages by a business is one way to stimulate greater production.
4. Etymology: from Latin stimulare, "to goad, to urge."
To rouse or to spur someone to do something.
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stimulating
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Units related to: “stimulating”
-agogic-, -agogue, -agog, -agogic, -agoguery, -agogy
(Greek: usually a suffix meaning: lead, leading, leading forth, guide, guiding; bring, take; promoting, stimulating)
cit-, citat-
(Latin: talk, speak, say; to put into quick motion, to excite, to provoke, to call urgently; to summon, to summon forth, to arouse, to stimulate; used in the sense of "stimulating")
Word Entries containing the term: “stimulating”
bipolar stimulating electrode (s) (noun), bipolar stimulating electrodes (pl)
An electrode which has the two terminals attached together and near each other.
This entry is located in the following units: bi-, bin-, bino-, bis- (page 8) electro-, electr-, electri- (page 2)
monopolar stimulating electrode
A stimulating electrode which has the two terminals attached separately and relatively far apart.
This entry is located in the following units: -ar (page 4) electro-, electr-, electri- (page 95) mono-, mon- (page 11)
stimulating electrode
An electrode that is used to apply electric current to body tissue.

It must include both a negative terminal and a positive terminal.

For related information, see bipolar stimulating electrode and monopolar stimulating electrode.

This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 100)