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How to pronounce “percussion”
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Pronunciation guide for percussion
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of percussion with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Bloom: Composing Music in Code
to instruments that are percussion or non-chromatic
- Definition summary
- (countable) The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce percussion
Bloom: Composing Music in Code
to instruments that are percussion or non-chromatic
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “percussion”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
- (countable) The sound so produced.
- (countable) The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
- (medicine) The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.
- (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.
- (engineering) The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.
- (palmistry) The outer side of the hand.
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