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Repercussion   /rˌipərkˈəʃən/  /rˌiprəkˈəʃən/   Listen
Repercussion

noun
1.
A remote or indirect consequence of some action.  Synonym: reverberation.  "Reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"
2.
A movement back from an impact.  Synonyms: backlash, rebound, recoil.





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"Repercussion" Quotes from Famous Books



... Venturi explains it, "in which the equinoctial circle and the Zodiac intersect each other, where the common motion of the heavens from east to west may be said to strike with greatest force against the motion proper to the planets; and this repercussion, as it were, is here the strongest, because the velocity of each is increased to the utmost by their respective distance from the poles. Such at least is the ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante


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