impact

Etymology
Attested since the 17th century, from.

Noun

 * 1) The striking of one body against another; collision.
 * 2) The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
 * 3)  A forced impinging.
 * 4)  A significant or strong influence or effect.
 * 1)  A significant or strong influence or effect.
 * 1)  A significant or strong influence or effect.

Usage notes

 * The adposition generally used with "impact" is "on" (such as in last example in section above)
 * There are some who find the figurative noun sense problematic, with a low threshold for labeling such use as overuse (cliché). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect and the verb sense with affect, which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as "the impact of late effects" is better stetted to avoid "the effect of [...] effects".)

Collocations

 * Adjectives often applied to "impact": social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: impulsus, conflictus
 * Polish: impakt,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: náraz, dopad, úder
 * Ukrainian: зі́ткнення
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: gwrthdrawiad


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: iskuvaikutus, ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: ictus
 * Norwegian: treffvirkning
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: zrážka, náraz, úder
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:


 * German:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: cywasgiad


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: indvirkning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔμπτωσις
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: tionchar
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Macedonian: влија́ние, дејству́вање
 * Norwegian: virkning
 * Occitan: impacte
 * Polish: impakt,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: dopad, dôsledok
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: dylanwad


 * Interlingua:

Verb

 * 1)  To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
 * When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
 * I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
 * 1)  To stamp or impress onto something.
 * Ideas impacted on the mind.

Usage notes
Some authorities object to the verb sense of impact meaning "to significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on". Although most verbification instances in English draw no prescriptive attention, a few do, including this one. To avoid controversy, one can replace the verb sense with affect, which nearly always produces an acceptable result. See also the usage note for the noun sense.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, сблъсквам се
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:, iskeytyä,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Lao:
 * Polish: ,
 * Thai:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: puristaa kokoon
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Maori: whakaaweawe
 * Polish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) impact

Etymology
From, see above.

Etymology
, from.