impinge

impinge (up)on (someone or something)

1. To infringe on or interfere with someone or something. Any legislation that impinges upon human rights must be stopped.
2. To make physical contact with something. It feels like something is impinging on my shoulder joint when I try to move it.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

impinge (up)on someone or something

to affect or interfere with someone or something. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) This will not impinge upon me at all. Will this matter impinge on my policies in any way?
See also: impinge, on
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

impinge on

or impinge upon
v.
1. To intrude or encroach upon something: I disagree with this new law because it impinges on my First Amendment rights.
2. To strike or collide with something: Sound waves impinge on the eardrum, causing it to vibrate.
See also: impinge, on
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • impinge (up)on (someone or something)
  • impinge on
  • let be
  • Let it be
  • let it/(one) be
  • tamper
  • tamper with
  • tamper with (something)
  • leave (someone or something) be
  • leave it be
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The C-Spray System features an impinge mix gun that is capable of circulating two component chemicals through the gun impingement rod and back to the supply reservoirs when not spraying.
The US Congress, while attaching the memo had stressed that Washington has no intentions to micromanage Pakistani affairs, nor does it want to impinge its sovereignty and national security, nevertheless, the text of the added note explains that the Obama administration's concerns over Pakistan's covert support to terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and nuclear proliferation remain the same.
In this country slowing retail sales and a consolidation in the level of house prices may well impinge on economic activity.
The ingate should be placed in such a way that the incoming stream does not impinge directly onto the thin core section, otherwise the core could fracture.
The issues which affect the choice of different materials and how these are likely to impinge on the use of TPEs in future are discussed.
In these patients, polyps from other areas can impinge on the septum and create an area of edema (figure, B and D).
And Aer Rianta resisted the venture on safety grounds, claiming it would impinge on the red zone around the airport and interrupt the flight path of aircraft.
Flipping through these pages shows that, more than any of his fellow sculptors, Cragg reintegrates discordant traditions, notably those of the readymade and of "formalism," of abstraction and of figuration, even of sculpture and of painting (since his multicolored plastic wall pieces of the early '80s clearly impinge upon pictorial issues, at once paralleling and criticizing the figurative painting of their day while definitively liberating him from the influence of Carl Andre, to whose art all of Cragg's work of the '70s had been a series of imaginative rejoinders).
The organization is also opposing legislation which might impinge upon the rights of cooperative boards to approve apartment transfers.
Tadao Ando's involvement with Naoshima Island dates back to the late 1980s, when he first designed a museum for contemporary art, conceived as a series of typically ascetic containers partially submerged underground so as to impinge as lightly as possible on the landscape.
Shakespeare's Noise actively engages with legal definitions of slander and libel as these impinge on metaphoric and philosophical meanings.
Pounds professes as geographer in "Parish, Its Bounds and Divisions", a chapter which incorporates boundaries and the secular ceremony of perambulation, population, and settlement, all of which inevitably impinge on configurations of parishes (their multiplying, merging, and decaying).
Great care was taken to impinge as lightly as possible on the fabric of the building.
Chris Highley's compelling account of the impact of Ireland on English Renaissance culture from 1580 to 1603 raises questions of race, class, and gender that impinge upon other texts and contexts.
In his flags, targets, and numerals, individual strokes of encaustic are so resolutely physical that, when one mark is superimposed on or set beside another, it doesn't seem to eliminate or even impinge on the other's presence.