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Definitions for stimulation
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Princeton's WordNet
stimulationnoun
the act of arousing an organism to action
stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, inputnoun
any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
stimulationnoun
(physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)
foreplay, arousal, stimulationnoun
mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
Wiktionary
stimulationnoun
A pushing or goading toward action.
stimulationnoun
An activity causing excitement or pleasure.
stimulationnoun
Any action or condition that creates a response; sensory input.
Etymology: From stimulatio.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Stimulationnoun
Excitement; pungency.
Etymology: stimulatio, Latin.
Some persons, from the secret stimulations of vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.
Wikipedia
Stimulation
Stimulation is the debut single from Australian pop group Wa Wa Nee. The song was released in April 1986 as the lead single from their self-titled debut studio album. The song peaked at number 2 on the Australian singles chart. The group performed the song live on Countdown on 20 July 1986. In 2015, the song was listed at number 25 in In the Mix's '100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time' with Nick Jarvis said "its dad-dance-inducing extended mix, a seven-minute slap-bass odyssey that rivals Prince's finest work for generating dancefloor fire".
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stimulation
Stimulation refers to the act of encouraging, provoking, or causing some sort of activity or response, typically in a physiological or psychological sense. This can involve using some form of stimuli such as light, sound, heat, or chemical substance to induce a response from a nervous system or cell in an organism. It can also refer to the act of arousing interest, enthusiasm, or excitement in something.
Webster Dictionary
Stimulationnoun
the act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated
Stimulationnoun
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
Etymology: [L. stimulatio: cf. F. stimulation.]
Wikidata
Stimulation
Stimulation is the action of various agents on nerves, muscles, 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. The word is also often used metaphorically. For example, an interesting or fun activity can be described as "stimulating", regardless of its physical effects on nerves. Stimulate means act as stimulus to, stimulus means things that rouses to activity, now rouses means exciting, stirring.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of stimulation in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stimulation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of stimulation in a Sentence
When iridoid cocktails were applied on the bottom of dishes that were then covered by a punctured plastic cover, cats still exhibited licking and chewing even though they couldn't contact the chemicals directly, this means that licking and chewing is an instinctive behavior elicited by olfactory stimulation of iridoids.
Andrea Scholer, author and philosopher:
It is difficult for intellect, technology, and peace to coexist. Not because peace is static where the other two require constant stimulation. Peace can embrace change. It is because we live in a world where intellect and technology compete for power. And peace does not allow for inequality or competition.
If you have what we refer to as a treatment-resistant depression, we may use things like TMS — transcranial magnetic stimulation — and we still use ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy. So there really is a large compendium of therapies available, the key is getting care. The vast majority of people will have their symptoms remit with proper treatment through psychotherapy and/or medication.
The expectation is that by applying stimulation, it will augment or boost the effects of physical rehabilitation, we have no expectation that it will cure stroke.
For some people [with ADHD], there's a need for constant stimulation, what a fidget allows some people -- not all people -- with ADHD to do is to focus their attention on what they want to focus on, because there's sort of a background motion that's occupying that need.
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