|
|
Definition of Percussive
1. Adjective. Involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments. "Percussive music"
Definition of Percussive
1. a. Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.
Definition of Percussive
1. Adjective. characterized by percussion; caused by or related to the action of striking or pounding something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Percussive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percussive
Literary usage of Percussive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Coal-mining: For the Use of Colliery Managers and Others by Herbert William Hughes (1898)
"These may be divided into percussive and rotary borers. ... Comparing percussive
borers with rotary ones, the useful effect of the force expended is ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"percussive hand drills are divided into (1) churn drills, in which the blow is
given by the force of the ... percussive hand drills have a shank b, Fig. ..."
3. Practical Coal Mining: A Manual for Managers, Under-managers, Colliery by George L. Kerr (1905)
"percussive machines are, therefore, practically pneumatic or electric picks.
They resemble mechanical rock-drills in that they are only furnished with a ..."
4. Handbook of Rock Excavation, Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1916)
"CHAPTER type of drill, 74; Table of percussive air and steam drills, 77; Parts
of a percussive drill, 78; Illustrations of various drills, 79, 80, 81, 82; ..."
5. Modern practice in mining / by Richard Augustine Studdert. Redmayne (1908)
"60, which represents a percussive borer). FIG. 60.—percussive Drilling with
Water-flushing. ... percussive ..."
6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Transference of pollen to the bodies of Insect« oy means of mechanism of the
percussive type. > Fart of an inflorescence of ..."
7. A Treatise on Coal Mining by International Correspondence Schools (1900)
"There are two general methods of boring, viz., percussive and rotary boring. ...
percussive BORING. 4. Any form of boring by a succession of blows is called ..."
Other Resources:
