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Definition of Percussions
1. percussion [n] - See also: percussion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percussions
Literary usage of Percussions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guesses at Truth by Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1847)
"... by altering its bed, and so subjecting the river during its descent to a new
set of percussions and reverberations. And what, when at last effected, ..."
2. A Treatise of Mechanics by Siméon-Denis Poisson (1842)
"In consequence of the invariability of the coefficients A, A', A", &c., during
the continuance of the percussions, these equations refer indifferently to ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"So there are (in effect) but three percussions that create tenes ; percussions
of metals (comprehending glass and the like), percussions of air, ..."
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