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Noun: stimulus (stimuli)  sti-myû-lus
  1. Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
    "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer";
    - stimulation, stimulant, input

Derived forms: stimuli

Type of: information

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