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.	(Astron.) 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.