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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
impinge
verb
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▪ A person responds only to a small part of the stimuli impinging upon him.
▪ Certainly little awareness of Manhattan and its skyscrapers seemed to impinge on the people working on the Worldwide Plaza brick.
▪ Except, of course, where they directly impinge on me, that is.
▪ It does not tell historians what to encode in a given source and thus impinge upon interpretation.
▪ It identified a series of constraints impinging on the urban cores and on many of those living within them.
▪ Or, indeed, the reverse, how does our understanding of Ireland currently impinge on our reading of Spenser?
▪ The proposed fencing would impinge on a public bridleway which traverses the field.
▪ They rarely study natural events, and only in so far as they impinge on the human world.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impinge

Impinge \Im*pinge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impinged; p. pr. & vb. n. Impinging.] [L. impingere; pref. im- in + pangere to fix, strike; prob. akin to pacisci to agree, contract. See Pact, and cf. Impact.] To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to clash with; -- with on or upon.

The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies.
--Sir I. Newton.

But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice.
--Bp. Warburton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
impinge

1530s, "fasten or fix forcibly," from Latin impingere "drive into, strike against," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + pangere "to fix, fasten" (see pact). Sense of "encroach, infringe" first recorded 1738. Related: Impinged; impinging.

Wiktionary
impinge

vb. 1 (context transitive now rare English) To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon). 2 (context intransitive figuratively English) To interference with; to encroach (on, upon). 3 (context intransitive English) To have an effect upon; to limit.

WordNet
impinge

  1. v. impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains" [syn: encroach, entrench, trench]

  2. advance beyond the usual limit [syn: encroach, infringe]

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Usage examples of "impinge".

The Russian astrophysicist Shklovsky has calculated that a type II supernovae 32 light-years from the sun could bath the earth with cosmic rays having an energy density 100 times that of the cosmic rays that now impinge upon the atmosphere.

The legitimacy of our government and our economy depend on the degree to which these values are rewarded, which is why the values of equal opportunity and nondiscrimination complement rather than impinge on our liberty.

What was happening was that light from the Sun was impinging on the Cloud and being reradiated as invisible heat.

Their house might be filled with lodgers, but they did not finally impinge on the reality of the Wests beneath them.

Michel knew another momentary dazzle before Lancelot scaled down the radiation impinging from the sources directly into his eyes.

All the social signifiers impinge on you, but none of the cultural signifieds come up.

Prentiss Carlisle, even knowing far more dangerous rules were soon to impinge on the lives of these young men, could not help feeling moved by the display, so brilliant was de Tomas's rhetoric, so overwhelming the response.

And so, the thought that suddenly impinged on her mind brought a confused awareness that an onlooker might consider that she was being embraced against her will.

Nothing which impinged upon him was denned by the barest possibility of meaning.

Whispers impinging directly upon her auditory nerve tell her that the Three Sectors of Consciousness are monitoring her and discussing events.

You might liken it to the sonic boom, where a physical object impinges the domain of sound, or Cerenkov radiation.

But at the same time, being a radical civil libertarian, Dazzle couldn't stand to see the public service sector impinging on anybody's personal freedom.

As Lunzie's words dissipated the barrier, Varian-Rianav sank against the back of the contour chair, her mind reeling as one identity still impinged on the other.

Noises impinged on his senses: raucous laughter, yells, shrieks, and a soft crooning noise that dominated the bedlam.

Each impinging radiation caused the dielectric constant of the hull to change so that it reradiated that exact frequency, at the same intensity as received, but a hundred and eighty degrees out of phase.