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/ɪmpˈækt/ /ˈɪmpækt/ Listen

noun

Impact n.

Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated. "The quarrel, by that impact driven."

(Mech.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

verb

Impact v. t. (past & past part. impacted; pres. part. impacting)

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

To affect or influence, especially in a significant or undesirable manner; as, budget cuts impacted the entire research program; the fish populations were adversely impacted by pollution.

To collide forcefully with; to strike.

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Etymology of 'Impact'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Impact" Quotes from Famous Books

... but a thunderous impact fairly rocked the house, and, fascinated, Billie watched the door bulge toward her, then spring back into place as the topmost bolt snapped like a knife-blade. One more ...

— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant

... upward, he sprang to his feet just in time to avoid a mass of earth and stones that came rolling down over the face of the cliff and fell on the very spot where he had been lying. The next instant, before he had time to realize what was happening, a soft, fluffy mass dropped into his arms with an impact that nearly brought him to his knees. For some seconds Dick looked hard at the object in his arms in order to assure himself that he really was awake and not still dreaming in the grass by the ...

— When Dreams Come True • Ritter Brown

... manhole built lower down the course of the storm-water sewer. Considerable wear takes place on the ramp, which should, therefore, be constructed of blue Staffordshire or other hard bricks. The ramp should terminate in a stone block to resist the impact of the falling water, and the stones which may be brought with it, which would crack stoneware ...

— The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns • Henry C. Adams

... regards offensive power, for that is a mere question of the battering capacity of the heaviest calibres, which is undoubted; but the main issue, which concerns their endurance, cannot be settled by the impact of 32-pounder shot, fired at 600 and 700 yards. Far heavier projectiles will in future be found on all seaboard fortifications; and the ingenuity of the artillerist may also be exerted more successfully than at Kinburn. Still, it ...

— Elements of Military Art and Science • Henry Wager Halleck

... and running south to the city a hundred miles away. That, of course, is a real train, with a box stove on end in the passenger car, fed with cordwood upside down, and with seventeen flat cars of pine lumber set between the passenger car and the locomotive so as to give the train its full impact ...

— Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town • Stephen Leacock

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