- impingent
- im·pin·gent
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impingent
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Impingent — Im*pin gent, a. [L. impingens, p. pr.] Striking against or upon. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
impingent — jənt adjective Etymology: Latin impingent , impingens, present participle of impingere : impinging ecological factors impingent upon the production and use of foods Theodore Stern … Useful english dictionary
impinge — impingent, adj. impinger, n. impingement, n. /im pinj /, v., impinged, impinging. v.i. 1. to make an impression; have an effect or impact (usually fol. by on or upon): to impinge upon the imagination; social pressures that impinge upon one s… … Universalium
Science (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of science Mach, Duhem, Bachelard Babette E.Babich THE TRADITION OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE If the philosophy of science is not typically represented as a ‘continental’ discipline it is nevertheless historically rooted in… … History of philosophy
contingent — Synonyms and related words: accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adscititious, adventitious, adventure, age group, aleatory, allotment, allowance, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, at issue,… … Moby Thesaurus
glancing — Synonyms and related words: brushing, contacting, contingent, flanking, grazing, impingent, impinging, in contact, lateral, lee, leeward, meeting, next beside, nudging, osculatory, rubbing, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway,… … Moby Thesaurus
grazing — Synonyms and related words: ablation, abrasion, abrasive, animal husbandry, animal rearing, appetite, attrition, bee culture, beekeeping, breeding, brushing, buffing, burnishing, campo, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness,… … Moby Thesaurus
meeting — Synonyms and related words: Mass, Olympic games, Olympics, accompanying, accordant, accumulated, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, agreeing, amassed, appointment, approach, approaching, appulse, articulation,… … Moby Thesaurus
rubbing — Synonyms and related words: apograph, brushing, carbon, carbon copy, caressing, companion, confrication, contacting, contingent, copy, dead ringer, double, duplicate, duplication, effigy, exact likeness, feeling, fellow, fiche, fingering,… … Moby Thesaurus
tangential — Synonyms and related words: approaching, asymptotic, brushing, centripetal, centrolineal, concurrent, confluent, confocal, connivent, contacting, contingent, converging, digressive, divergent, extraneous, focal, glancing, grazing, impingent,… … Moby Thesaurus
