Percussion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERCUSSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of striking; musical instruments as drums, etc., sounded by being struck
• musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles
• the striking of one solid object with or against another with some degree of force
• the action of tapping a part of the body as part of a diagnosis
• the act of striking; musical instruments as drums, etc, sounded by being struck
• The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
• Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
• The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.
• the act of playing a percussion instrument
• the act of exploding a percussion cap
• the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments
• tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of percussing; as the striking of a percussion cap so as to set off the charge in a firearm; the beating or striking of a musical instrument; the act or technique of tapping the surface of a body part to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the resultant sound

Words related to PERCUSSION

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Words that contain PERCUSSION

percussions15 percussional16 repercussion16 percussionist17 repercussions17 percussionists18

How to use PERCUSSION in a sentence

• There were half a dozen men and boys about the door, amusing themselves with bursting percussion caps on the stone.
• XXIII THE PERCUSSION CAP There was a long, tense silence.
• In a well-marked case the foot is warmer to the hand than its fellow, and percussion over the wall will sometimes reveal the particular nail that is the cause of the trouble.
• Pain is evinced by the animal withdrawing his foot when percussion takes place over the affected spot.
• In those cases where percussion has led to the positive opinion that pus really exists, then the exploration must be most searching.
• In such instances paring may often be commenced over the exact position of suppuration as previously ascertained by percussion.
• Manton patented his percussion tubes for a similar purpose.
• Smyth had left me with the rifle a large supply of specially cast bullets and of the new percussion caps, to say nothing of some very fine imported powder.
• When Tom Tulliver went to school, he took some percussion caps with him that the other lads might suppose him to be familiar with the use of guns.
• We forget that all instruments of percussion, as they are called, are direct descendants of the drum.
• In truth, the percussion gun of that period was not as reliable as might have been wished.
• It was not until 1858 that the percussion rifle, still a muzzle-loader, was generally used by the United States army.
• The fourth was a percussion bomb, which had long cloth streamers fastened to the handle to insure greater accuracy in throwing.
• In line with exercise of this kind, massage and percussion treatment of the abdominal region is likewise effective.
• The area below the foreign body will give an impaired percussion note.
• At this time it was reported to me that the Caledonia Rifle Company had no percussion caps, and but few rounds of cartridge.
• After all, one does not hear a thousand voices singing together every day, and the brass and the percussion are very brilliant.
• A German high explosive percussion bomb was brought in one day for us to identify the explosive present.
• Cyrus Harding could certainly have fabricated a percussion cap.
• He surveyed with great attention the percussion lock and heavier barrel of the rifle, surprised, no doubt, at its superior make and accuracy.
• Chords are not to be played with percussion but with pressure.
• Percussion caps were made in Richmond early in 1861, and great numbers were smuggled through the lines, in the early part of the war.
• In 1850 and 1851, 113,406 muskets were altered in their locks, from flint to percussion, involving an amount of labor equal to the manufacture of 7,630 muskets.
• It is more susceptible to friction and percussion than nitro-glycerine, and unless pure it is liable to spontaneous decomposition.
• It is only slightly decomposed by strong percussion on an anvil.
• It has the form of a coarse yellowish grey powder, and leaves an oily stain on paper, and it is very sensitive to friction and percussion.

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