Word Meanings - IMPINGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of impinging.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPINGEMENT)

• Incidence
• Impingement
• impact
• stroke

Related words: (words related to IMPINGEMENT)

• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• IMPINGEMENT
  The act of impinging.
• STROKE
  Struck.
• IMPACT
  To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.
• STROKESMAN
  The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
• INCIDENCE
  The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface. In equal incidences there is a considerable inequality of refractions. Sir I. Newton. Angle of incidence, the angle which a ray of light, or the line of incidence of
• IMPACTED
  Driven together or close. Impacted fracture , a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.
• IMPACTION
  The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip. 2. An immovable packing; , a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BY-STROKE
  An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• COINCIDENCE
  1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley. 2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 3. Exact
• COUNTERSTROKE
  A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.
• DEAD-STROKE
  Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer , a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.
• TRUDGEN STROKE
  A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; -- so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but often erroneously written trudgeon.
• UPSTROKE
  An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made. Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega. Mrs. Browning.
• INSTROKE
  An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke.
• NONCOINCIDENCE
  Lack of coincidence.
• HANDYSTROKE
  A blow with the hand.
• DOWNSTROKE
  A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
• SUNSTROKE
  Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally;
• SPOT STROKE
  The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for an easy winning hazard in either top corner pocket.