What is "clashings"

Usage examples of "clashings".

Once more, if nature creatress of things had been wont to compel all things to be broken up into least parts, then too she would be unable to reproduce anything out of those parts, because those things which are enriched with no parts cannot have the properties which begetting matter ought to have, I mean the various entanglements weights blows clashings motions, by means of which things severally go on.

But thus methinks it is: there are certain bodies whose clashings motions order position and shapes produce fires, and which by a change of order change the nature of the things and do not resemble fire nor anything else which has the power of sending bodies to our senses and touching by its contact our sense of touch.

Again since the seeds differ, there must be a difference in the spaces between, the passages, the connexions, the weights, the blows, the clashings, the motions.

Thus in actual things as well when the clashings motions arrangement position and shapes of matter change about, the things must also change.

Fog signals were booming on the railway, and from the great docks in the neighborhood mechanical clashings and hammerings were audible.

And he found himself sniffing and listening for sounds of intrusion -- something more than the echoing passage of their own footsteps and the subdued metallic clashings from the kitchen area.

And he found himself sniffing and listening for sounds of intrusion — something more than the echoing passage of their own footsteps and the subdued metallic clashings from the kitchen area.