Noun

(en noun)

A consequence or ensuing result of some action.

You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions .

The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.

the repercussion of sound

* Hare

Ever echoing back in endless repercussion .

(music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

(medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.

(Dunglison)

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

(Webster 1913)

Noun

The condition of being resonant.

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A resonant sound, echo

(figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.

(physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.

(nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle that cannot be observed directly.

* 2004', When experiments with the first ‘atom-smashers’ took place in the 1950s to 1960s, many short-lived heavier siblings of the proton and neutron, known as ‘'''resonances ’, were discovered. — Frank Close, ''Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 35)

An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.

(chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.