Usually means: Produces sound through striking, shaking.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word percussion instrument:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. percussion instrument: Merriam-Webster
  2. percussion instrument: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. percussion instrument: Collins English Dictionary
  4. percussion instrument: Vocabulary.com
  5. percussion instrument: Wiktionary
  6. percussion instrument: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. percussion instrument: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. percussion instrument: Dictionary.com
  9. Percussion Instrument, Percussion instrument: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. percussion instrument: Rhymezone
  11. percussion instrument: FreeDictionary.org
  12. percussion instrument: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. percussion instrument: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. percussion instrument: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. percussion instrument: Medical dictionary

(Note: See percussion_instruments as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (percussion instrument)

noun:  (music) An instrument in which the sound is produced by striking, scraping or shaking an object.

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