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Impingement

noun
1.
Influencing strongly.  Synonyms: encroachment, impact.
2.
A sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something.  Synonym: impaction.






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"Impingement" Quotes from Famous Books



... Take the papers to the Council at Scandor. They are in the cabin in my desk. They are sealed. I know there is a celestial runaway that is going to strike this planet. I overheard that much at the Patenta. And its direct path, the point of impingement, will be at Scandor. The fires ascending from Scandor are signals that they, too, have divined the disaster. I think so at least! Hurry on! You may see the strangest phenomenon eyes have ever seen. But, Dodd, enough ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... ghost urges Hamlet to revenge, so Apollo urges Orestes; it is the influx, stir, or impingement of the Supreme Self, that rouses a man, at a certain stage in his evolution, to lift himself above his common manhood. This is the most interesting and momentous event in the long career of the soul: it takes the place, in that drama of incarnations, that the ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris



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