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词汇 stimulus
释义 stimulus
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/ us /ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/pluralstimuliuk /ˈstɪm.jʊ.laɪ/
C2
something that causes growth or activity: 刺激(物),激励(物);促进因素
Foreign investment has been a stimulus to the industry.外国投资促进了该产业的发展。
The book will provide a stimulus to research in this very important area.这本书将会对这一重要领域的研究起促进作用。
biology specialized
something that causes part of the body to react: (使身体部位产生反应的)刺激
The tip of the tongue is sensitive to salt and sweet stimuli and the back of the tongue is sensitive to bitter stimuli.舌尖对糖和盐的刺激很敏感,而舌根则对苦味的刺激很敏感。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Encouraging and urging on
abet
barrack for someone
bread
bring
bring someone out
cultivate
get in there!idiom
get out of here!idiom
go on
good/great/lovely stuff!idiom
goose
muster
pave
pave the wayidiom
pep talk
permit
prepare
spur
stoke
urge

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Animal & plant biology - general words

stimulus | American Dictionary


stimulus
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈstɪm·jə·ləs/pluralstimulius/ˈstɪm·jəˌlɑɪ, -ˌli/
something that causes growth, activity, or reaction:
[ C ]Scientists are studying the cell’s response to stimuli.
[ U ]The aid package would provide very little fiscal stimulus.

stimulus | Business English


stimulus
noun[ C or U ]
 ECONOMICSuk /ˈstɪmjələs/uspluralstimuliuk /ˈstɪmjəlaɪ/
something that encourages growth or causes activity:
a stimulus to sthWe would support a further cut in interest rates as a stimulus to economic growth.
a stimulus for sthTax cuts are the classic stimulus for a sluggish economy.
See also
fiscal stimulus
economic stimulus
monetary stimulus

Examples of stimulus


stimulus
Epigenetic rules have been demonstrated in virtually every category of cognition and behaviour investigated in such a way as to distinguish choices among stimuli.
Finally, the most convincing evidence for residual function in animals comes from studies using very coarse stimuli that are presented for a long time.
Initially it was thought that there was an impairment in memory for visual stimuli but work carried out in the 1970s largely dispelled this notion.
In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex, using the right stimuli.
Processing of stimuli goes through a sequence of phases.
The real stimuli to sustained intervention in the industrial sector came from two main sources.
Many activities which are carried out for leisure, which by definition must be voluntary and bring satisfaction, involve strong physical stimuli.
Unsupervised neural networks are ideal for detecting novelty because they often rely on classification error of new stimuli to guide training.
We were especially interested in using the hyponym0troponym relationships to determine the specificity of the stimuli being presented.
When there are multiple senses of a word applicable to the problem, these multiple senses were considered in the stimuli set.
Therefore, the well-practiced strategies a reader uses for word reading can be expected to be applied to nonword stimuli as well.
In one subgroup the tones for the two stimuli in the pair were matched, whereas in the other subgroup the tones were not matched.
A brief sequence of practice stimuli was presented for each eccentricity.
All stimuli were consonant - vowel - consonant nouns of which pictures could easily be prepared.
All of these stimuli involved phoneme manipulations in different parts of the syllable.
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Collocations withstimulus


stimulus

These are words often used in combination with stimulus.

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acoustic stimulus
Neuronal responses to the acoustic stimuli were recorded together with the responses to current injection.
additional stimulus
This knowledge may have served as an additional stimulus for his interest in the field.
auditory stimulus
To replicate simultaneously individual pitches or short melodic patterns after an auditorystimulus involves fewer synthesis skills and requires less self-monitoring over time.
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