Impulse

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Strictly speaking an impulse is a signal composed of all zeros except for a very brief pulse. For discrete (digital) signals, the pulse consists of a single nonzero sample.

In perceptual audio an impulse is not quite as strictly defined. It's however a very short clear pulse in time domain.