Associations to the word «Repercussion»

REPERCUSSION, noun. A consequence or ensuing result of some action.

REPERCUSSION, noun. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.

REPERCUSSION, noun. (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

REPERCUSSION, noun. (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.

REPERCUSSION, noun. (obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

REPERCUSSION, noun. A remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later".

REPERCUSSION, noun. A movement back from an impact.