Impingement in a sentence as a noun

Direct gas impingement blows; it is broken by design.

Conservatives think limits on the type of weapon one owns is a impingement on their freedoms.

There is mention of the Heckler&Koch HK 416, which replaces the direct impingement system with a piston design.

The fact that an impingement of our sources and methods helps our adversaries cannot be understated.

Techniques like impingement cooling do this to varying degrees of efficiency.

Edit: the only "impingement" on the freedom on the anti same-sex marriage side is they must tolerate the presence of people the do not approve of.

I have to say that MRI is usually very good at detecting optic nerve impingement, so this 'crucial' point which is reported third hand deserves some skepticism.

First, the law is quite possibly an impermissible impingement by Congress onto the military discretion of the President.

This leads to chiropractors using techniques that have been shown to be harmful, such as doing spinal manipulation to fix nerve impingement, which is contraindicated by numerous studies.

Second, even hearing the case would quite possibly be an impermissible impingement by the judiciary into political affairs.

This may entail deliberately crashing into the known best crumple zones, even at the optimal angle to ensure there is reduced risk of impingement of your limbs, say - perhaps even tailored to knowledge of your shape.

Impingement definitions

noun

influencing strongly; "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture"

See also: encroachment impact

noun

a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something

See also: impaction