Percussive vs Percuss - What's the difference?
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characterized by percussion; caused by or related to the action of striking or pounding something
To strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to.
To impact.
(transitive, chiefly, medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface).
(transitive, chiefly, medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface.
Percussive is a related term of percuss.
As an adjective percussive
is characterized by percussion; caused by or related to the action of striking or pounding something.As a verb percuss is
to strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to.percussive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He massaged her shoulders with a gentle percussive action.
- ''His technical skills were limited to performing percussive maintenance: hitting malfunctioning equipment in the hope that it will then work.
percuss
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Verb
(es)- Solid bodies, if they be very softly percussed , give no sound.
- Falling on the roof of the caravan, the hailstones percussed noisily.
- The doctor percussed his chest to determine whether he had pneumonia.
- Percussing a patient's spleen is best done while he is on his back.