REPERCUSSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repercussion mean? 

• REPERCUSSION (noun)
  The noun REPERCUSSION has 2 senses:

1. a remote or indirect consequence of some action

2. a movement back from an impact

  Familiarity information: REPERCUSSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPERCUSSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A remote or indirect consequence of some action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

repercussion; reverberation

Context example:

reverberations of the market crash were felt years later

Hypernyms ("repercussion" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Derivation:

repercuss (cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A movement back from an impact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

backlash; rebound; recoil; repercussion

Hypernyms ("repercussion" is a kind of...):

motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repercussion"):

bounce; bouncing (rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts))

resilience; resiliency (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)

carom; ricochet (a glancing rebound)

 Context examples 

It's the first example of a plant's clock modulating growth in a natural environment, and having real repercussions for the plant.

(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)