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Repercussion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of driving back; reverberation; as the repercussion of sound.

2. In music, frequent repetition of the same sound.

Repercussion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

2. Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

3. The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.

4. In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.