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Impact

Impact Meaning & Definition
Impact Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Impact?

[n] influencing strongly; "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture"
[n] the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat; "the armies met in the shock of battle"
[n] the striking of one body against another
[n] a forceful consequence; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"
[v] have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
[v] press or wedge together; pack together

Synonyms | Synonyms for Impact: affect | bear on | bear upon | encroachment | impingement | shock | touch | touch on

Related Terms | Find terms related to Impact: affect | affective meaning | altitude peak | appulse | automatic control | backlash | backwash | bearing | bed | blast-off | blow | bounce | brunt | buffet | bulldozing | bulling | bump | bumping | burden | burn | burnout | cannon | carambole | carom | ceiling | change | clash | clout | colliding | collision | coloring | concussion | confirm | connotation | consequence | consequences | contact | crack-up | cram in | crash | crashing | crowd in | crump | crunch | deep-dye | define | denotation | descent | drift | drive in | effect | embed | encounter | end of burning | engraft | engrave | entrench | essence | establish | etch | extension | fix | flight | force | force in | found | gist | grammatical meaning | ground | hammering | hit | idea | ignition | impingement | implant | implication | import | impress | impression | imprint | infix | influence | ingrain | inscribe | intension | jam | jam in | jar | jolt | jounce | knock in | launch | lexical meaning | lift-off | literal meaning | lodge | mark | mauling | meaning | meeting | modify | onslaught | overtone | pack | pack in | percussion | pertinence | pith | plant | plunge in | point | poke in | pound | pound in | practical consequence | press in | print | punch | purport | push in | quake | quiver | ram in | ramming | range of meaning | rap | reaction | real meaning | recoil | reference | referent | reflex | relation | relevance | repercussion | response | results | rock | rocket launching | root | run in | scope | seat | semantic cluster | semantic field | sense | set | set in | settle | shake | shock | shoot | shot | sideswipe | significance | signification | significatum | signifie | slap | sledgehammering | smash | smashing | smash-up | span of meaning | spirit | squeeze in | stamp | stereotype | strike | striking | stroke | structural meaning | stuff in | substance | sum | sum and substance | symbolic meaning | tamp in | tenor | thrust | thrust in | thrusting | totality of associations | trajectory | transferred meaning | tremble | tremor | unadorned meaning | undertone | value | velocity peak | wallop | wedge | wedge in | weight | whomp

See Also | act upon | alter | blow | bother | bump | change | combat | consequence | contact | discommode | disoblige | effect | endanger | event | expose | fight | fighting | force | hit | impinging | incommode | inconvenience | influence | influence | issue | outcome | peril | process | put out | queer | redound | repercuss | result | scupper | squeeze | strike | strike a blow | striking | subject | tell on | treat | trouble | upshot | wedge | work

Impact In Webster's Dictionary

\Im*pact"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impacted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impacting}.] [L. impactus, p. p. of impingere to push, strike against. See {Impinge}.] To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. --Woodward.
\Im"pact\, n. 1. Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated. The quarrel, by that impact driven. --Southey. 2. (Mech.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

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