What does "impact" mean?
Impact: Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated. The quarrel, by that impact driven. Southey.
Additional senses
- 2.(Mech.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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