IMPACT

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.

2.
n.

Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated. The quarrel, by that impact driven. Southey.

3.
n.

The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.


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