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Meaning impact meaning

What does impact mean?
Definitions in simple English

impact Noun

— An impact is the act of one object hitting another. In tests, the driver was unhurt, even in high-speed impacts. Many buildings were destroyed as the plane exploded on impact. — The impact is the effect of an act, statement, change, etc. The report noted that most teachers feel that IT has made little impact on formal education. The environmental impact of such increases in efficiency, however, depends on how you generate the power.

impact Verb

— If something impacts you, it has an effect on you. It is obvious how bad movies will impact on children. — If you impact something, you press (or pack) its together. There is a special tool to impact the road when it is under construction so the base is solid.

impact

— noun the striking of one body against another — noun (= wallop) a forceful consequence; a strong effect the book had an important impact on my thinking the book packs a wallop — noun (= impingement) influencing strongly they resented the impingement of American values on European culture — verb press or wedge together; pack together — noun (= shock) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat the armies met in the shock of battle — verb (= affect) have an effect upon Will the new rules affect me?

Synonyms impact synonyms

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impact English » English

influence effect collision affect shock crash strike hit impinge bump jolt concussion knock collide brunt work touch percussion impression impingement dash conflict blow whack wallop tremor touch on striking smash result ram move lash impulsive force impulse impaction encroachment clash beat bear upon bear on ballistic action act wring out wring from wipe weigh warfare tweet

Topics impact topics

What do people use impact to talk about?
Language and thought Want

Influence
Physical actions

Physical impact
Physical actions Physical impact

Hit

  • What words refer to the speed or force with which something is hit?
    force impact
Grammar General words Do

Change something

Conjugation impact conjugation

How do you conjugate impact?

impact · verb

Examples impact examples

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Simple sentences

What thought do you think had the biggest impact on the English in the Middle Ages?
The car bumper absorbed some of the impact.
The statesman's death had a great impact on the political world.
The impact of science on society is great.
This loss and its consequences will have an impact not only the people that speak these languages but upon us all.
My method is surprisingly simple, but the impact is big.
Brace for impact.
The impact of the crisis is enormous.
On August 31, 1950, another V-2 was launched and carried an unanaesthetized mouse that was photographed in flight and did not survive impact.
The Barringer Meteorite Crater near Winslow, Arizona is believed to have been formed about 49,000 years ago by the impact of a 300,000 ton meteorite.
The addition of electric lighting to the cathedral diminishes the impact of the stained glass.
Brace for impact!
The impact of Emmet's theory on physics has been widely discussed, but this is not my concern in this paper.
Lack of sleep can have an enormous negative impact on a student's grades.
Stress can have an enormous negative impact on your health.
Brace yourselves for impact.
Lake Manicouagan, a ring-shaped lake in Quebec, Canada, is all that remains of a crater from a massive impact over 200 million years ago.
That book had a significant impact on me.

Movie subtitles

The death of Yongle had an immediate and dramatic impact.
It seems unimaginable because life, or the building blocks of life, would have had to survive an impact with our planet.
When it expands, the projectile continues on down into the impact chamber and that's when things happen.
This is the impact chamber.
With the vertical gun loaded and the impact chamber set, it's time to test and see if the organic material laced onto the projectile can survive a high-speed impact.
We showed that we actually got solid pieces that survived impact, and embedded within that solid piece are amino acids.
Helius sent the unmanned trial rocket H.32, filled with magnesium, moonward - the explosion of which, upon impact, was viewed and photographed from the earth!
Perhaps he was pinned down between the steering wheel and the car. The impact crushed his head.
Probe impact in 5 seconds.
It's new every time, so the impact must be quite a business on you.
Those things make an impact, I can tell you.
The brain trust has figured out the force of impact.
How'd you find the distance of impact?
His testimony may have a major impact for my client.
Well, they're having a huge impact.
The used tools vary based on the animal: the rush, or cane the mallet and the pistol of retained projectile, whose impact kills the animal right away.
Now, if you survive the first impact, try to get out of the escape hatch and get to a life raft. They may pick you up when they search for us in the morning.
Where a person would have a chance to survive that impact. Come with me.
That angle would keep us from plunging straight in. Although, at that speed, the impact would be rather severe. See?
Couldn't the throttle spring have been dislodged by the impact of the crash?
At impact they will be travelling fast enough to weigh 9,000lbs.
Impact. zero.
Not only does Mr. Gallagher answer the what, when, where. who, why, and how, he puts them in such a sequence. that a routine news item takes on all of the impact. of a short short story.
It really had impact.
He told of their friendship in Paris before meeting a certain girl, the impact she had on them, and all that ensued.
I felt this one might fair better if presented with a certain dramatic impact.
Electronic, barometric, time and impact.
Enlargements of the photos give us quite a lot of details along the crest, at least 12 passenger thrown out on impact and four bodies visible in the tail section.
This plan can have an impact on the army budget.
I examine the impact of boxing on the living organism.
Heading straight for point of impact!
Impact in point six.
Yeah! They burst on impact. Make a hell of an explosion.
Ten seconds to impact.
Five, four, three, two, one, impact.
I want to extract as much information as we can from the impact craters in surrounding soil first.
Try to determine from which direction they came and their possible velocity at the moment of impact.
Computers indicate an impact somewhere in the heart of the Euro-Asian continent.

News and current affairs

If the policy were extended to third-country firms, it would have a powerful liberalizing impact.
Second, troubles in any single component of total debt will have an impact on all the other components.
To offset the negative impact of private-sector deleveraging on growth, the US government has maintained expansionary fiscal and monetary policies.
More equitable taxation would have a positive impact on governance, another important tool for mobilizing domestic resources.
More generally, improving coordination among donors would help to maximize the impact of aid on the ground.
The single most immediate and direct impact of having an independent fiscal policy would be to reign in spending by producing a counterpoint to Panglossian government growth and revenue forecasts.
Improved economic prospects and the strengthening of institutions, in turn, would have a positive impact on the political climate throughout the Balkans.
And global warming's impact would reduce energy consumption for almost all nations.
One more thing: even if we managed to do all this (which we obviously cannot), the impact on global temperatures would be hardly noticeable by 2050.
The narrow view of the catastrophe's economic impact is that Japan doesn't really matter anymore.
After all, more than 20 years of unusually sluggish trend growth in Japanese output has sharply reduced its incremental impact on the broader global economy.
They want to have a positive impact on the world.
Yet it still does not routinely collect the data that it needs - trades by time and customer - to understand the actions and impact of large traders.
It reflects the impact of fundamental (and historic) economic and financial re-alignments, insufficient policy responses, and system-wide rigidities that frustrate structural change.
The real challenge of global warming, therefore, lies in tackling its impact on the Third World.
So much for the sovereign-debt crisis, which, given its national, regional, and global impact, has been particularly well covered.
Environmental issues are of paramount importance in marginal countries because their impact on human survival is immediate and direct.
All estimates of the possible impact of global warming suggest that a large part of the continent will become drier, and that the continent as a whole will experience greater climatic variability.
We know what the impact of periodic droughts have been on the lives of tens of millions of Africans.
It must be mined with greater efficiency and with a view to mitigating the environmental impact.
The significance of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 is not the relatively low magnitude of Japan's direct impact on the broader global economy.

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