Definition of Impinge

1. Verb. Impinge or infringe upon. "This matter entrenches on other domains"

Exact synonyms: Encroach, Entrench, Trench
Generic synonyms: Take Advantage, Trespass
Derivative terms: Encroachment, Impingement, Impinging

2. Verb. Advance beyond the usual limit.
Exact synonyms: Encroach, Infringe
Generic synonyms: Advance, Go On, March On, Move On, Pass On, Progress
Derivative terms: Encroacher, Encroachment, Encroachment, Infringement

Definition of Impinge

1. v. t. To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to clash with; -- with on or upon.

Definition of Impinge

1. Verb. (intransitive now rare) To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon). ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive figuratively) To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon). ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To have an effect upon; to limit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Impinge

1. to collide [v -PINGED, -PINGING, -PINGES] - See also: collide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impinge

impierce
impierceable
impierced
impierces
impiercing
impies
impieties
impiety
impignorate
impignorated
impignorates
impignorating
impignoration
impignorations
imping
impinge (current term)
impinge on
impinged
impingement
impingements
impinger
impingers
impinges
impinging
impings
impinguate
impinguated
impinguates
impinguating
impinguation

Literary usage of Impinge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... and (2) preventing the error of spherical aberration by cutting off divergent rays which would otherwise impinge near the margins of the lens, ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1884)
"Two notched plates at the level of the gas-orifices serve to divide the upward column of air, and cause it to impinge upon the flame. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and (2) preventing the error of spherical aberration by cutting off divergent rays which would otherwise impinge near the margins of the lens, ..."

4. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, Andrew Reid, John Gray, John Eames, John Martyn (1749)
"Body, moving, with a given Velocity, to impinge upon the Blood, and by it's Stroke to communicate a Part of it's Motion to it : Which Supposition agrees ..."

5. An Elementary Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies: With by Edward John Routh (1860)
"Two bodies impinge on each other, to explain the nature of the action that takes place ... When two spheres of any hard material impinge on each other, ..."

6. Immortality, a Study of Belief, and Earlier Addresses by William Newton Clarke (1920)
"invisible powers that silently impinge upon it. It has consisted in the sense of God in the soul, bringing the sense of mystery, of duty, of need, ..."

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