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Plural of percussion

regular plural

The plural of percussion is percussions.

Forms of percussion

Singularpercussion /pɚˈkʌʃən/
Pluralpercussions
Countablecountable and uncountable

Percussions in a sentence

  • A typical Last Poets song consisted of a "spiel," an early form of rap where song verses were spoken over conga drum percussions or jazz music.2007, Jocelyne Cesari, Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, Greenwood Pub Group, →ISBN. From the entry spiel

Meaning of percussion

  1. noun The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
  2. noun The sound so produced.
  3. noun The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.

Full definition of percussion

Questions about the plural of percussion

What is the plural of percussion?
The plural of percussion is percussions.
Is percussion countable?
Percussion is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: percussion (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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