Impact Synonyms & Definitions

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• ImpactDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.
2. (n.) Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.
3. (v. t.) To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

• ImpactionDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.
2. (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.