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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
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- 1noun
The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
- 2noun
Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
the act of exploding a percussion cap
- 5noun
the act of playing a percussion instrument
- 6noun
tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes
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- 7noun
the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments
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