impact
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#IMPACTCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂ǵ-#IMPACTAttested since the 17th century, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#IMPACT impāctus.
Pronunciation
- (noun): enPR: imʹpăkt, IPA(key): /ˈɪmpækt/Category:English 2-syllable words#IMPACTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#IMPACT
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#IMPACTAudio (Southern England): (file) - (verb): enPR: im-păktʹ, IPA(key): /ɪmˈpækt/Category:English 2-syllable words#IMPACTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#IMPACT
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#IMPACTAudio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
impact (countable and uncountable, plural impacts)Category:English lemmas#IMPACTCategory:English nouns#IMPACTCategory:English uncountable nouns#IMPACTCategory:English countable nouns#IMPACTCategory:English countable nouns#IMPACTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#IMPACTCategory:Pages with entries#IMPACTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#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.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- (chiefly medicineCategory:en:Medicine#IMPACT) A forced impinging.
- His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact, which caused numbness in his leg.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- (figurative, proscribedCategory:English proscribed terms#IMPACT) A significant or strong influence or effect.
- His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building's mechanical performance.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- December 7, 1941, November 22, 1963, and September 11, 2001 had an impact on many throughout the world.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- The French revolution, the Russian revolution, and the Iranian revolution had an impact on many throughout the world.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- 2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 111:
- One way to reduce the environmental impact of meat eating is to make livestock more productive.Category:English terms with quotations#IMPACT
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".)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- adverse impact
- Charpy impact test
- disimpact
- environmental impact statement
- giant impact theory
- high-impact
- impact aid
- impact area
- impact crater
- impact drill
- impact driver
- impact energy
- impact event
- impact factor
- impactful
- impactite
- impactive
- impactless
- impact matrix printer
- impact melt
- impactment
- impact play
- impact printer
- impact resistance
- impact sourcing
- impact statement
- impact winter
- low-impact
- nonimpact
- postimpact
- preimpact
- second impact syndrome
- vibroimpact
- victim impact statement
Related terms
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
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Verb
impact (third-person singular simple present impacts, present participle impacting, simple past and past participle impacted)Category:English lemmas#IMPACTCategory:English verbs#IMPACTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#IMPACTCategory:Pages with entries#IMPACTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#IMPACT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#IMPACT) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
- When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- 2014 December 1, Mike Williams, “Microbullet hits confirm graphene’s strength”, in Rice University:
- As a microbullet impacts the graphene, the diameter of the cone it creates – determined by later examination of the petals – provides a way to measure how much energy the graphene absorbs before breaking.Category:English terms with quotations#IMPACT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#IMPACT) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#IMPACT, figurative, proscribedCategory:English proscribed terms#IMPACT) To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
- I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#IMPACT, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#IMPACT) To stamp or impress onto something.
- Ideas impacted on the mind.Category:English terms with usage examples#IMPACT
Usage notes
Although most verbification instances in English draw no prescriptive attention, some authorities object to the verb sense of impact meaning "to significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on". 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from English#IMPACTCategory:Dutch terms derived from English#IMPACT impact.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪm.pɛkt/, /ˈɪm.pɑkt/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#IMPACT
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#IMPACTAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: im‧pact
Noun
impact m (plural impacts, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#IMPACTCategory:Dutch nouns#IMPACTCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#IMPACTCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#IMPACTCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#IMPACTCategory:Pages with entries#IMPACTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#IMPACT
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From LatinCategory:French terms derived from Latin#IMPACTCategory:French undefined derivations#IMPACT, see above.
Pronunciation
Noun
impact m (plural impacts)Category:French lemmas#IMPACTCategory:French nouns#IMPACTCategory:French countable nouns#IMPACTCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#IMPACTCategory:French masculine nouns#IMPACTCategory:Pages with entries#IMPACTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#IMPACT
- (literally or figuratively) impact
Further reading
- “impact”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#IMPACTCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#IMPACT impact, from LatinCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#IMPACT impactus.
Noun
impact n (plural impacturi)Category:Romanian lemmas#IMPACTCategory:Romanian nouns#IMPACTCategory:Romanian countable nouns#IMPACTCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#IMPACTCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#IMPACTCategory:Pages with entries#IMPACTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#IMPACT
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | impact | impactul | impacturi | impacturile |
| genitive-dative | impact | impactului | impacturi | impacturilor |
| vocative | impactule | impacturilor | ||