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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

... Was he trying to soften his mother? Had this letter put an end to his love? Many such questions, all insoluble, tormented poor Ursula, and, by repercussion, the doctor too, who suffered from every agitation of his darling child. Ursula went often to her chamber to look at Savinien, whom she usually found sitting pensively before his table with his eyes turned towards her window. At the end of the week, ...

— Ursula • Honore de Balzac

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