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Repercussion   Listen
noun
Repercussion  n.  
1.
The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. "Ever echoing back in endless repercussion."
2.
(Mus.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
3.
(Med.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
4.
(Obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.





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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


Words linked to "Repercussion" :   bouncing, result, repercuss, issue, event, bounce, rebound, reverberation, effect, recoil, ricochet, backlash, motion


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