percussion

percussion is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
2. noun. Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. the act of exploding a percussion cap
5. noun. the act of playing a percussion instrument
6. noun. tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes

   Synonyms: pleximetry

7. noun. the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments

Synonyms

pleximetry

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in percussion:

croupiness, supersonic

Common word forms

percussions, percussional, percussioner, percussionize

Words from these letters

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