impact
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
impact
- The striking of one body against another; collision.
- The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
- The hatchet cut the wood on impact.
- (chiefly, medicine) A forced impinging.
- His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact, which caused numbness in his leg.
- A significant or strong influence; an effect.
- His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.
- Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building's mechanical performance.
- French: impact
- German: Einschlag, Aufprall, Aufschlag
- Italian: impatto
- Portuguese: impacto
- Russian: уда́р
- Spanish: impacto
- French: impact
- German: Auswirkung, Einwirkung, Einfluss, Beeinflussung
- Italian: impatto, effetto
- Portuguese: impacto
- Russian: возде́йствие
- Spanish: impacto, efecto, consecuencia
impact (impacts, present participle impacting; past and past participle impacted)
- (transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
- When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
- (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
- The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.
- (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact#Noun|impact on.
- I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
- (transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something.
- Ideas impacted on the mind.
- German: einschlagen, zusammenstossen, kollidieren
- German: zusammenpressen
- French: affecter, toucher
- German: beeinflussen, einwirken, beeinträchtigen
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