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impact

impact is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated. The quarrel, by that impact driven. Southey.
  2. 2.(Mech.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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