Im"pact (?), n.
1. Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force
communicated.
The quarrel, by that impact driven.
Southey.
2. (Mech.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or
at rest.
Im*pact" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impacted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Impacting.]
[L. impactus, p. p. of impingere to push, strike against. See Impinge.] To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a
place. Woodward.
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