Dictionary - English
stimulus
- Something causing or regarded as causing a response. from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition / listen
- An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response. from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive: "Works which were in themselves poor have often proved a stimulus to the imagination” ( W.H. Auden). from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition