Definition of "repercussion" in English

noun

1. A consequence or ensuing result of some action.

   • You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions.

2. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.

   • the repercussion of sound

3. (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

4. (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.

5. (obstetrics, historical) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.