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Repercussion   /rˌipərkˈəʃən/  /rˌiprəkˈəʃən/   Listen
Repercussion

noun
1.
A remote or indirect consequence of some action.  Synonym: reverberation.  "Reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"
2.
A movement back from an impact.  Synonyms: backlash, rebound, recoil.






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"Repercussion" Quotes from Famous Books



... temporary capital of the world, one felt the repercussion of every event, every incident of moment wheresoever it might have occurred. To reside there while the Conference was sitting was to occupy a comfortable box in the vastest theater the mind of men has ever conceived. ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... became so narrow that he was forced to sit astride of it, and while they went slowly forward, helping themselves with their hands, a loud detonation echoed up, on their right, from beneath them. "Avalanche!" said Inebnit, keeping motionless till the repercussion of the echoes, numerous, grandiose, filling the sky, died away at last in a long roll of thunder in the far distance, where the final detonation was lost. After which, silence once more covered all ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet

... spiritual energy. His life seemed to have drawn near to eternity; every thought, word, and deed, every instance of consciousness could be made to revibrate radiantly in heaven; and at times his sense of such immediate repercussion was so lively that he seemed to feel his soul in devotion pressing like fingers the keyboard of a great cash register and to see the amount of his purchase start forth immediately in heaven, not as a number but as a frail column of incense or as a ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... of the Battle of Arras was fought on the 9th, when the enemy was thrust back 5 miles with the heaviest losses in prisoners and guns which he had yet suffered at the hands of the British. The repercussion of this violent fighting was felt all along the British line, and particularly to the southward, where the positions were still semi-fluid. The enemy's object was to delay as long as possible in his outposts before the Hindenburg Line, while the British ...
— The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) • Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell

... Asia Minor had its repercussion in Greece. For nearly two years the people, though war-worn and on the edge of bankruptcy, bore the financial as they had borne the famine blockade, trusting that England would at any moment come ...
— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott

... the internal organs are caused by irritants as above, and by sudden cooling of the surface of the animal, which drives the blood to that organ which at the moment is most actively supplied with blood. This is called repercussion. A horse which has been worked at speed and is breathing rapidly is liable to have pneumonia if suddenly chilled, while an animal which has just been fed is more liable to have a congestive colic if exposed to the same influence, the blood in this case being driven ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... prepossess'd w' enjoy th' Elizian plain, Which but before was flatter'd in our brain. Who ere yet view'd airs child invisible, A hollow voice, but in thy subtile skill? Faint stamm'ring Eccho you so draw, that we The very repercussion do see. Cheat-HOCUS-POCUS-Nature an assay O' th' spring affords us: praesto, and away! You all the year do chain her and her fruits, Roots to their beds, and flowers to their roots. Have not mine eyes feasted i' th' frozen ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace



Words linked to "Repercussion" :   consequence, motion, resilience, resiliency, carom, recoil, rebound, backlash, ricochet, result, reverberation, outcome, repercuss, bounce, event, upshot, bouncing, issue, movement, effect



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