Impinger vs Impinges - What's the difference?
impinger | impinges |
Any of several instruments in which fine particles (dust) in a gas are analysed by blowing them through a jet onto a wetted plate, prior to being counted
(impinge)
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To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon).
* , vol.1, New York Review Books, 2001, p.287:
(figuratively) To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon).
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To have an effect upon; to limit.
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As a noun impinger
is any of several instruments in which fine particles (dust) in a gas are analysed by blowing them through a jet onto a wetted plate, prior to being counted.As a verb impinges is
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(imping)- The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds […].
Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}