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impinge, v.|ɪmˈpɪndʒ|
[ad. L. imping-ĕre (only trans.) to push, strike, drive (at or into), thrust, strike, or dash (against), f. im- (im-1) + pangĕre to fix, drive in.]
1. trans. To force or thrust (a thing) upon any one; to fasten or fix on forcibly. rare.
1535Joye Apol. Tindale 1 This with other haynous crymes whiche he impingeth vnto me in his pistle. 1825Syd. Smith Sp. Wks. 1859 II. 198/1 If this method of appealing to the absurdities of a past age, and impinging them upon the present age is fair and just.
2. To strike, dash, hurl a thing upon something else; refl. = 4.
1660G. Fleming Stemma sacrum 5 Before they did impinge themselves, and the Vessel, upon some new and worse dangers. 1829T. L. Peacock Misfort. Elphin xi, He impinged his foot with a force that overbalanced himself.
3. To strike; to come into forcible contact with, collide with. Now rare.
1777Gamblers 17 On being impinged by another ball, it will spin for some little time on its own center. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xv. 139 Myriads [particles of light] can move all manner of ways without impinging one another. 1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall iv, The degree of force with which I have impinged the surface. 1910Practitioner July 109 The striker's thumb..impinges the skull of his opponent.
4. a. intr. To strike or dash; to come into (violent or energetic) contact; to collide. Const. on, upon, also against, † at.
1605G. Powel Refut. Ep. by Puritan Papist 38 The rockes of offence, whereat some of the ancient Emperours impinged. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iv. i. 1676 134/2 A ship that is void of a Pilot, must needs impinge upon the next rock or sands, and suffer shipwrack. 1717J. Keill Anim. Œcon. (1738) 61 The Ventricles, when they contract, impinge upon the Blood, and..expel it. a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) I. 176 Provided we know the weights of the two bodies, and their swiftness before they impinged. 1796Atwood in Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 130 The inclination of the masts and sails..and the direction in which the wind impinges on them. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1510 A flame which by means of the blowpipe is caused to impinge upon the charcoal.
b. Said of waves of light, sound, and the like.
1672Newton in Phil. Trans. VII. 5087 Those, when they impinge on any Refracting or Reflecting superficies, must..excite Vibrations in the aether. 1872Huxley Phys. viii. 209 The aërial waves which enter the meatus all impinge upon the membrane of the drum. 1878Foster Phys. iii. ii. 397 The laws according to which rays of light impinging on the retina give rise to sensory impulses.
c. fig.
1614P. Forbes Def. Lawfull Ministers §19. 35 They still reason, ab authoritate negative, and so, doe impinge foully, in all the sortes above specified. 1852Gladstone Glean. IV. xxiii. 158 Here we impinge upon a dilemma hard as adamant.
5. To encroach or infringe on or upon.
1758Warburton Div. Legat. Pref, Wks. 1811 IV. 59 Nor did the heat of reformation carry him to impinge upon any other of the nocturnal Rites, then celebrated in Rome. c1800Ld. Eldin in Ramsay Remin. v. (1870) 127 Had..my clients been caught..impingin on the patent richts. 1814Scott Wav. xiv, Heaven forbid that I should do aught that might..impinge upon the right of my kinsman. 1884Illustr. Lond. News 6 Sept. 219/1 In doing so, I should be impinging on the province of the reviewers.
Hence impinging |ɪmˈpɪndʒɪŋ| vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1704Newton Opticks (J.), The cause of reflexion is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 390 There must be as many impinging particles in the one, as there are gravitating particles in the other. 1844Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 289 The power of reflection in water varies with the angle of the impinging ray. 1955Sci. News Let. 14 May 308/1 Mercury vapor inside the vacuum tube gives the glow as its atoms are excited by impinging electrons. |