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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

자극

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jageuk

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Stimulus/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"이 프로젝트는 경제에 큰 자극이 될 것입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue, or encourages activity in general.

    "Low interest rates act as a stimulus for the housing market."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived directly from Latin 'stimulus', meaning a goad or cattle prod. In the late 18th century, the term broadened via physiology to denote any agent that causes a functional reaction in organs or tissues, eventually extending into general psychology and economics.

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