Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word IMPINGE

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Definitions of IMPINGE

1. (intransitive, rarely, transitive) To make a physical impact on.
2. (intransitive, rarely, transitive, figuratively) To interfere with.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To have an effect upon, especially a negative one.

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Examples of Using IMPINGE in a Sentence

• Calcification of the internal carotid arteries can impinge the uncrossed, lateral retinal fibers, leading to loss of vision in the nasal field.
• The trumpet shape of these flowers thus acts as a parasol shading the gynoecium at times of maximum solar radiation, and not allowing the rays to impinge on the gynoecium.
• The Protectionists were forced to modify their immigration policy following an outcry from Queensland Protectionist candidates who feared that a White Australia policy would impinge on the importation of Kanakas to work on Queensland sugar plantations.
• The epitaxial growth takes place as the group III atoms impinge on the heated substrate surface, migrates into the appropriate lattice sites and then deposits near excess group V dimers or tetramers.
• In the cervical spine, a symptomatic postero-lateral herniation between two vertebrae will impinge on the nerve which exits the spinal canal between those two vertebrae on that side.
• The basic concept was to impinge the plasma leaking from fusion reactors onto solids or liquids, vaporizing, dissociating and ionizing the materials, then separating the resulting elements into separate bins for collection.
• Cultural psychiatry is an approach that synthesizes the biological, psychological, and social forces that impinge upon behavior, and explains their interactions through a cultural lens to therapeutically benefit individuals or groups affected by death, disease, and disorganization.
• Kinematic or elastic backscattering occurs when low energy (1-100 eV) electrons impinge on a clean, well-ordered crystalline specimen.
• Sticking coefficient is the term used in surface physics to describe the ratio of the number of adsorbate atoms (or molecules) that adsorb, or "stick", to a surface to the total number of atoms that impinge upon that surface during the same period of time.
• A Carroll Park neighborhood association has existed for years, and residents join together for an annual potluck picnic or on the rare occasion that something threatens to impinge on the historic significance or peacefulness of the Park.
• The goal of Ubi periculum was to limit dilatory tactics and distractions within papal elections, and outside intrusions which might impinge upon the freedom of the electors; it was certainly intended to produce faster outcomes, and, by making the rules more explicit and detailed, to reduce the chances of schism and disputed elections.
• A simple, unreflective cognizance of pregiven religious fundamentals, in the manner advocated by the Salafi-minded Ibn Taymīyyah, was still knowledge; yet nothing could disentangle it from the mundane influences that normally impinge upon the human faculty of comprehension.
• Infragravity waves generated along the Pacific coast of North America have been observed to propagate transoceanically to Antarctica and there to impinge on the Ross Ice Shelf.
• Terisa Greenan is an outspoken advocate for sexual freedom and has spoken on the topic of polyamory in various public forums, including multiple appearances on CNN and The BJ Shea Morning Experience, at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and in Canada with John Ince (politician) and Janet Hardy on a panel coinciding with a landmark Canadian court case regarding whether the anti-polygamy section of Canadian Criminal Code 293 was drawn broadly enough to impinge on the human rights of polyamorists.
• For this reason, X-rays first impinge upon scintillators made from such materials as gadolinium oxysulfide or caesium iodide.
• Following this line of reasoning, BC courts may impinge upon testamentary freedom, or deem it as a secondary purpose under the statute, whenever there is an unaddressed issue concerning the testator's general moral obligations to society, which are interpreted liberally as to equipartition the estate.
• When two streams either of two-dimensional or axisymmetric nature impinge on each other, a stagnation plane is created, where the incoming streams are diverted tangentially outwards; thus on the stagnation plane, the velocity component normal to that plane is zero, whereas the tangential component is non-zero.
• Variety was more positive, calling it a "fizzing, restless, wholly singular fusion of physics lecture and romcom" stating also that "The love story and the academic treatise gradually impinge on each other more than they inform each other".
• The mantle plume hypothesis predicts that domal topographic uplifts will develop when plume heads impinge on the base of the lithosphere.
• His group studies how alterations in key developmental (Notch/CSL) and hormonal (androgens) signaling pathways impinge on cancer cells of origin and intermingled cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and the expansion and multifocality of cancer lesions over time (field cancerization).

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