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Definition of Impingements
1. impingement [n] - See also: impingement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impingements
Literary usage of Impingements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sea-sickness; a Comprehensive Treatise for Practical Use: A Comprehensive by Herman Partsch (1890)
"And so, if the velocity of wave is less than the velocity of the ship, there will
be a tremor caused by the impingements of ship against the waves which it ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"That scale would be best in which sensation-differences are proportional to
distances traversed. But energy-impingements being as the inverse squares of ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"... or the particles of the medium and of the bubble, the revolving particles
would sustain more impingements on their fronts than on their rears—that is, ..."
4. Osteopathy, Research and Practice by Andrew Taylor Still (1910)
"262 In any lung disease, without exception, you cannot be too exacting in your
exploration and the work of readjusting to the normal, because impingements ..."
5. The Science of chiropractic: Its Principles and Adjustments by Daniel David Palmer, Bartlett Joshua Palmer (1906)
""That there are impingements of nerves along the spine we readily ... are responsible
for nerve impingements, we most emphatically deny. ..."
6. The Consolations of Science: Or, Contributions from Science to the Hope of by Jacob Straub (1888)
"Their bodily movements are in obedience to impingements of force residing apart
... And these impingements indicate this force as more or less intelligent. ..."
7. Reprints of Papers from the Department of Anatomy of the University of by California University. Dept. of anatomy (1908)
"Undulations of high frequency would result in a greater number of impingements
per unit of length of the organ of Corti than would waves of low ..."
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