Crossword clues for impinging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of impinge English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "impinging".
At first sight you would think that as the intensity of the light—its brightness—is increased, the speed of the ejected electrons will also increase, since the impinging electromagnetic wave has more energy.
Just as no children can afford to leave regardless of the huge total number of coins the adults shower upon them, no electrons are jostled free regardless of the huge total energy embodied in the impinging light beam, if its frequency (and thus the energy of its individual photons) is too low.
Just as children leave the basement with 15 cents no matter how many dollar bills are thrown down, each electron leaves the surface with the same energy—and hence the same speed—regardless of the total intensity of the impinging light.
Always on Fuerte, there had been the knowledge that people were close by, people were seeing, if not intently observing her, impinging on her consciousness, infringing on her desire to be alone and private.
Space reverberated with the gravity-wave backwash of their wormhole interstices snapping shut behind them, impinging on the habitat’s sensitive mass-detection organs.
And she still couldn’t see the owners of the two minds impinging so strongly on her perception.
Ripples of panic raced out from their minds, impinging against those close by.
They'd be facing forward then, into a howling storm of impinging interstellar hydrogen.
All that mass around it would be more than adequate to shield it from the diminishing hail of impinging radiation, and the drive beam itself would handily ward off the interstellar hydrogen directly ahead.
Thus, a feature of the surface configuration that was reasonably permanent, behaved with the properties of mass, and reflected part of the radiant flux impinging on it would look like a rock.
The rooter suddenly had all my knowledge impinging on its nervous system, and no equipment in which to receive that knowledge and store it.