impact

Meaning of impact

noun
  1. The striking of one body against another; collision.
  2. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
    The hatchet cut the wood on impact.
  3. A forced impinging.
    His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact, which caused numbness in his leg.
  4. A significant or strong influence; an effect.
    His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.
verb
  1. To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
    When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
  2. 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.
  3. To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
    I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
  4. To stamp or impress onto something.
    Ideas impacted on the mind.

Information about impact

Hyphenation of impact

im-pact

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • impact is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

impact synonyms

Meaning wallop:

wallop

Meaning impingement:

impingement, encroachment

Meaning shock:

shock

Meaning affect:

affect, touch

Translation of impact

Anagrams of impact

campit, Campti

Words that rhyme with impact

pact, epact, bicompact, compact, disimpact, incompact, nonimpact, postimpact, recompact, reimpact, semicompact, subcompact, ultracompact, uncompact

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