Usually means: Instruments played by hitting, shaking.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word percussion:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. percussion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. percussion: Merriam-Webster
  3. percussion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. percussion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. percussion: Collins English Dictionary
  6. percussion: Vocabulary.com
  7. Percussion, percussion: Wordnik
  8. percussion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. percussion: Wiktionary
  10. percussion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. percussion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. percussion: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. percussion: Dictionary.com
  14. percussion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. percussion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Percussion (disambiguation), Percussion (medicine), Percussion (music), Percussion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Percussion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. percussion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. percussion: Rhymezone
  20. percussion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. percussion: FreeDictionary.org
  22. percussion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. percussion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. percussion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PERCUSSION: Band Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. percussion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. percussion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. percussion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Percussion: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  5. percussion: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  8. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. percussion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See percussions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
noun:  (countable) The sound so produced.
noun:  (countable) The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
noun:  (medicine) The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.
noun:  (music) The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.
noun:  (engineering) The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.
noun:  (palmistry) The outer side of the hand.

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