Meaning

• A consequence or ensuing result of some action.

  "You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions."

• The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.

  "the repercussion of sound"

• Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

• The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.

• In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.