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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

... his home in Putney packing for his trip to America, would have suggested nothing to him. As it was, it suggested a great deal. He had had a brain-wave, and for fully a minute he sat tingling under its impact. He was not a young man who often had brain-waves, and, when they came, they ...

— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... one has watched the uncontrolled apparatus tumble through the air. The agony felt by the pilot and passenger seems to transmit itself to you. You are helpless to avert the certain death. You cannot even turn your eyes away at the moment of impact. In the dull, grinding crash there is the sound of ...

— Flying for France • James R. McConnell

... long to wait. The second night after the drowning of the mate the little yacht was suddenly wracked from stem to stern. About one o'clock in the morning there was a terrific impact that threw the slumbering guests and crew from berth and bunk. A mighty shudder ran through the frail craft; she lay far over to starboard; the engines stopped. For a moment she hung there with her decks at an angle of forty-five degrees—then, with a sullen, rending sound, she slipped ...

— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... beings—often called "lives"—penetrate the body freely; they circulate in the aura[86] and in each plexus of the organism; there they are subjected to the incessant impact of the moral, menial, and spiritual forces, and become impregnated with a spirit of good or of evil, as the case may be. They enter the cells and leave them with intense rapidity, for their cycles of activity as well as of ...

— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal

... struck, a circle of white shot out from the point of impact, a circle that barely touched that seething west flank. The circle paled to gray, and settled to earth. Where there had been green, rank growth, there was now no more than a dirty red crater, and the whole west flank of the ...

— The God in the Box • Sewell Peaslee Wright

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