percussion
Meaning of percussion
noun
- The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
- The sound so produced.
- The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
- The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.
- The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.
- The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.
- The outer side of the hand.
Information about percussion
- It is a name.
- The plural form of percussion is: percussions.
- Languages in which percussion is used:
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Hyphenation of percussion
per-cus-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- percussion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
percussion synonyms
Meaning pleximetry:
Anagrams of percussion
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