Noun repercussion has 2 senses
  1. repercussion, reverberation - a remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"
    --1 is a kind of consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
    Derived form: verb repercuss1
  2. recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash - a movement back from an impact
    --2 is a kind of movement, motion
    --2 has particulars:
     bounce, bouncing; resilience, resiliency; ricochet, carom
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