Repercussion

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

II. Repercussion ·noun The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.

III. Repercussion ·noun The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

IV. Repercussion ·noun In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.