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noun

Repercussion n.

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."

(Mus.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

(Med.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.

(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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Etymology of 'Repercussion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repercussion" Quotes from Famous Books

... capital of the world, one felt the repercussion of every event, every incident of moment wheresoever it might have occurred. To reside there while the Conference was sitting was to occupy a comfortable box in the vastest theater the mind of men has ever conceived. From this rare coign of vantage one could witness soul-gripping ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... boast, Magnificent Killarney!—from thy coast Tho' mountains rise with noblest woods embrown'd; Tho' ten-voiced Echos send the cannon's sound In thunders bursting the vast rocks around, Till startled Wonder and Delight exhaust In countless repercussion—Isles embost Upon thy liquid glass; their bloomy veil Sorbus and [a]rbutus;—yet not for thee So keenly wakes our local ecstacy, As o'er the narrow, barren, silent Dale, Where deeply sleeps, rude circling Rocks among, The Love-devoted Fount ...

— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward

... and triumphant stage of the Battle of Arras was fought on the 9th, when the enemy was thrust back 5 miles with the heaviest losses in prisoners and guns which he had yet suffered at the hands of the British. The repercussion of this violent fighting was felt all along the British line, and particularly to the southward, where the positions were still semi-fluid. The enemy's object was to delay as long as possible in his outposts before the Hindenburg Line, while the British endeavoured to push him rapidly upon his ...

— The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) • Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell

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