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From Latin stimulātiō. Morphologically stimulate + -ion
- (UK) IPA(key): /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈstɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /stɪm.jʉːˈlæɪ.ʃən/
stimulation (countable and uncountable, plural stimulations)
- A pushing or goading toward action. [from 16th c.]
- (biology) Any action or condition that creates a response; sensory input. [from 18th c.]
- An activity causing excitement or pleasure; the act of stimulating.
- acustimulation
- allostimulation
- angiostimulation
- autostimulation
- biostimulation
- bronchostimulation
- cardiostimulation
- contrastimulation
- co-stimulation
- counterstimulation
- cryostimulation
- deep brain stimulation
- destimulation
- digital stimulation
- electrostimulation
- extrastimulation
- gravistimulation
- hyperstimulation
- immunostimulation
- interferential stimulation
- interstimulation
- macrostimulation
- magnetostimulation
- mechanostimulation
- microstimulation
- myostimulation
- nanostimulation
- neurostimulation
- nonstimulation
- optostimulation
- osteostimulation
- overstimulation
- phagostimulation
- pharmacostimulation
- photostimulation
- phytostimulation
- pneumostimulation
- poststimulation
- prestimulation
- psychostimulation
- restimulation
- self-stimulation
- superstimulation
- thermostimulation
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- understimulation
- vasostimulation
- vibrostimulation
pushing or goading toward action
- Bulgarian: стимулиране n (stimulirane)
- Catalan: estimulació f
- Chinese:
- Dutch: stimulatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: stimulado
- French: stimulation (fr) f
- Galician: estimulación (gl) f
- German: Stimulation (de) f, Anregung (de) f
- Irish: spreagthacht f
- Japanese: 刺激 (ja) (しげき, shigeki)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stimulering m or f
- Nynorsk: stimulering f
- Occitan: estimulacion (oc) f
- Portuguese: estimulação (pt) f
- Romanian: stimulare (ro) f
- Russian: стимуля́ция (ru) f (stimuljácija), стимули́рование (ru) n (stimulírovanije)
- Spanish: estimulación (es) f
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Stimulation”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 1 (Si–St), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 965.
Inherited from Middle French, from Latin stimulātiōnem.
stimulation f (plural stimulations)
- “stimulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.