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Impingement

Impingement \Im*pinge"ment\, n. The act of impinging.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
impingement

1670s; see impinge + -ment.

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impingement

n. The act of impinge.

WordNet
impingement
  1. n. influencing strongly; "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture" [syn: encroachment, impact]

  2. a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something [syn: impaction]

Usage examples of "impingement".

The impingement of the alpha particles on the robot positronic brain was drastic.

The dislocation also provides a barrier against the operating impingement of the physical energy transfer/generation/entropy laws of the spatio-temporal coordinates of the systems hereafter described.