stimuli
- 1Plural of stimulus.
Researchers presented several visual stimuli to each participant during the test.
The nervous system responds to many different stimuli at once.
Note
A Latin plural kept intact: stimulus follows the second-declension pattern, so its -us ending becomes -i. The regularized stimuluses is rare and generally avoided in scientific writing. Stimuli always takes a plural verb (the stimuli were strong) and never follows a or one. The plural covers every sense of stimulus, from incentives and sensory triggers to the stinging parts of plants and insects.
stimuli is a form of stimulus
stimulus, noun: An outside thing or event that influences a system by triggering or changing something within it, such as a spur that drives someone to act. Full entry
- Forms
- stimulusstimuluses pluralstimuli plural
- Spelling
- stimulus → stimuli: irregular plural (no -s)
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