Appulse /(?; 277)/

Ap·pulse

Appulse

n.
  1. A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.
    In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs.
    — Holder.
  2. The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian. (Astron.)