2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repercussion \Re`per*cus"sion\ (-k?sh"?n), n. [L. repercussio:
cf F. r['e]percussion.]
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. --Hare.
2. (Mus.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
3. (Med.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action
of a repellent. --Dunglison.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
repercussion
n 1: a remote or indirect consequence of some action "his
declaration had unforeseen repercussions"
2: a movement back from an impact [syn: {recoil}, {rebound}, {backlash}]
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