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percussion /pəˈkʌʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1Musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles: [as modifier]: percussion instruments...- Nigerian music is dependent on strong rhythms supplied by countless drums and percussion instruments.
- The Adagio would probably do that if arranged for tuned percussion.
- The tunes remain but the clattering percussion and meandering vocals transport them to a whole other level.
2The striking of one solid object with or against another with some degree of force: the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters...- For pebbles and larger particles, surface textures, such as weathering pits and percussion fractures, provide important clues to particle history.
- In particular, the supporters of energy/work rightly doubted its competence to deal with phenomena involving percussion and impact.
- We may leave aside bizarre examples whereby smell or impact, percussion, may have had some effect.
Synonyms crash, bang, smash, clash, bump, thump, thwack, whack; impact, collision, striking, beating, shock, knock 2.1 Medicine The action of tapping a part of the body as part of a diagnosis: the chest sounded dull on percussion...- Physical examination through percussion and palpation, however, would reveal more about the size of the liver than a flat film since the flat film only reveals one of the apecies.
- This involves four steps: observation, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.
- Physical examination revealed dullness to percussion and decreased breath sounds at both bases.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin percussio(n-), from the verb percutere 'to strike forcibly' (see percuss). |