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Definition of Impinging
1. Noun. The physical coming together of two or more things. "Contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"
Generic synonyms: Happening, Natural Event, Occurrence, Occurrent
Specialized synonyms: Collision, Hit, Engagement, Interlocking, Mesh, Meshing, Flick, Impact, Touch, Touching
Derivative terms: Contact, Impinge, Strike
Definition of Impinging
1. Verb. (present participle of impinge) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impinging
1. impinge [v] - See also: impinge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impinging
Literary usage of Impinging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1890)
"cessful working of the other: first, the central spray nozzle with impinging
surface and means of regulation; second, the device for inducing the necessary ..."
2. Cosmos and Diacosmos: The Processes of Nature Psychologically Treated by Denton Jaques Snider (1909)
"We may now put together the process of the immediately impinging Body, which
presses directly upon the ... In the previous stage of the impinging Body, ..."
3. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"If a ball strikes against another in any direction whatever, what is the direction
of the impinging ball after the shock? It is of importance, ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1858)
"The attraction of the interior molecules for this part is seen in the formation
of a void space ; and when the vibrations of impinging points induced a ..."
5. Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physical Science with a Special Lecture by Peter Guthrie Tait (1876)
"Mathematical consequences of the supposition that a gas consists of constantly
impinging particles—Gaseous Diffusion. Results of Maxwell's investigations. ..."
6. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1862)
"Let m be the mass of the latter body, m'= the impinging mass, of which let the
velocity at the point of impact be v'; let the line of motion of m' be in the ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"But if the cylinders be long, while the velocity of the impinging cylinder is of
moderate amount, the contrary may occur. The condition that the cylinder ..."
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