Impingement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impingement \Im*pinge"ment\, n.
     The act of impinging.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  impingement
       n 1: 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "impingement":
     appulse, attouchement, brunt, brush, bulldozing, bulling, bump,
     cannon, carambole, caress, carom, clash, collision, concussion,
     contact, contingence, crack-up, crash, crump, crunch, encounter,
     encroachment, entrance, entrenchment, glance, graze, hammering,
     impact, impingence, imposition, incursion, infiltration, influx,
     infringement, injection, inroad, insinuation, interference,
     interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure,
     interruption, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, jar,
     jolt, kiss, mauling, meeting, nudge, obtrusion, onslaught,
     osculation, percussion, ramming, rub, shock, sideswipe,
     sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, taction, tangency,
     tentative contact, thrusting, touch, touching, trespass,
     trespassing, unlawful entry, whomp