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Percussive   /pərkˈəsəv/   Listen
Percussive

adjective
1.
Involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments.



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"Percussive" Quotes from Famous Books



... has not proved very promising. There are immense difficulties connected with the design of an explosive shell of this class, charged with a high explosive, especially in connection with the timing. So far as dependence upon percussive detonation is concerned there is practically no difficulty. Should such a missile strike, say, the motor of an aeroplane, or even the hull of the craft itself, the latter would be practically destroyed. But all things considered, it is concluded that more successful ...
— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot



Words linked to "Percussive" :   percussion, percuss



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