percussion

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French, Old French percussion, from Latin percussiō (“striking”), from percutiō (“I strike”).

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈkʌʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ʌʃən

NounEdit

percussion (countable and uncountable, plural percussions)

1. (countable) The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
2. (countable) The sound so produced.
3. (countable) The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
4. (medicine) The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.
5. (music) The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.
6. (engineering) The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• hand percussion
• percussion break
• percussion cap
• percussion idiophone

• percussion instrument
• percussionist
• percussively

TranslationsEdit

collision producing a sound

• Catalan: percussió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擊發, 击发 (jīfā)

• Finnish: lyönti (fi)
• Icelandic: samsláttur m, sláttur (is) m, barningur (is) m
• Russian: столкнове́ние (ru) n (stolknovénije), уда́р (ru) m (udár)

sound produced by collision

• Catalan: percussió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擊發的聲音, 击发的声音 (jīfā de shēngyīn)

• Finnish: lyöntiääni
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can

detonation of percussion cap

medicine: tapping of the body

• Catalan: percussió f
• Danish: perkussion c

• Finnish: koputtelu (fi)
• Russian: высту́кивание (ru) n (vystúkivanije), перку́ссия (ru) f (perkússija)

music: section of percussion instruments

• Catalan: percussió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打擊樂器 (zh), 打击乐器 (zh) (dǎjī yuèqì)

• Czech: bicí
• Danish: slagtøj n, percussion c
• Finnish: lyömäsoittimet (fi) pl
• German: Perkussion (de) f
• Icelandic: slagverk n

• Irish: cnaguirlis f
• Maori: papā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slagverk n

  Nynorsk: slagverk n

• Portuguese: percussão (pt) f
• Russian: уда́рный инструме́нт m (udárnyj instrumént) (percussion instrument)

engineering: repeated striking

• Finnish: tärytys (fi)

AnagramsEdit

• coin purses, croupiness, supersonic

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FrenchEdit

NounEdit

percussion f (plural percussions)

1. percussion (tapping of the body)
2. (music) percussion

Further readingEdit

• “percussion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).