See Also: repercussion(medicine)
repercussion(dictionary)
repercussion(dictionary)

repercussion (iou)



repercussion noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French repercussion or Latin repercussio(n-), formed as REPERCUSS: see -ION.]
Medicine. The action of repressing infections, eruptions, etc. LME-E18.
The action or power of driving back an advancing force. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
Repulse or recoil of a thing after impact; the fact of being forced back by a resisting body. M16.
b. Medicine. = BALLOTTEMENT. M19.
a. Reflection of a sound; (an) echo, (a) reverberation. M16.
b. Music. In a fugue: the reentrance of the subject and answer after an episode. L19.
Reflection of or of light. Now rare. E17.
fig.: Coleridge Our election from God is the repercussion of the beams of his love shining upon us.
A blow given in return; fig. a return of any kind of action, a responsive act. E17.
S. Johnson Tenderness once excited will be..increased by the..repercussion of communicated pleasure.
An effect, esp. one distant from the event which caused it; an unintended or indirect consequence. Usu. in pl. E20.
J. Berger Political and diplomatic repercussions of..frontier incidents might..prove disastrous. M. Lane These beginnings were to have..repercussions on Maria's later life.