IMPINGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impinging mean? 

• IMPINGING (noun)
  The noun IMPINGING has 1 sense:

1. the physical coming together of two or more things

  Familiarity information: IMPINGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPINGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The physical coming together of two or more things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

contact; impinging; striking

Context example:

contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull

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

happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)

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

collision; hit ((physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together)

engagement; interlocking; mesh; meshing (contact by fitting together)

flick (a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible))

impact (the striking of one body against another)

touch; touching (the event of something coming in contact with the body)

Derivation:

impinge (impinge or infringe upon)

 Context examples 

Life flowed past him, deep and wide and varied, continually impinging upon his senses, demanding of him instant and endless adjustments and correspondences, and compelling him, almost always, to suppress his natural impulses.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was as though, somewhere, a piano were playing and the actual notes were impinging on his ear-drums.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Because the acoustic impedance of perflutren lipid microspheres is much lower than that of blood, impinging ultrasound waves are scattered and reflected at the microsphere-blood interface and may be visualized with ultrasound imaging.

(Perflutren Lipid Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)

Because the acoustic impedance of perflutren protein-type A microspheres is much lower than that of blood, impinging ultrasound waves are scattered and reflected at the microsphere-blood interface and may be visualized with ultrasound imaging.

(Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)