different between backlash vs repercussion

English

Etymology

From back +? lash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk?læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

backlash (countable and uncountable, plural backlashes)

1. A sudden backward motion.
2. (figuratively) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.

3. (mechanics) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Derived terms

• techlash

Translations

Verb

backlash (third-person singular simple present backlashes, present participle backlashing, simple past and past participle backlashed)

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

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Anagrams

• black ash, hacklabs

English

Etymology

From Middle French répercussion, from Latin repercussio (“rebounding; repercussion”), from repercutio (“cause to rebound, reflect, strike against”), from re- + percutio (“beat, strike”), from per- (“thoroughly”) + quatio (“shake”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?.p??k??.?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??i.p??k??.?n/, /???.p??k??.?n/

Noun

repercussion (countable and uncountable, plural repercussions)

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

   • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter

     Ever echoing back in endless repercussion.

3. (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
4. (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

5. (obstetrics) 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.

Synonyms

• (consequence): aftereffect
• (consequence): consequence

Translations