Impact

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Impact, in direct and metaphoric sense, is a collision or conflict between two physical bodies, ideas or behaviours. It may also indicate a strong reaction on consequences of a particular event.

Impact leads to significant changes of one or both involved abstract or physical objects, for example: destruction, war, negotiation, modification of social and cultural habits, as well as the introduction of a new technology or modification of natural environmental conditions.

In computing:

• IMPACT (computer graphics), a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstations
• Impact Finite Element Program, an open source finite element program
• Impact, a 1988 computer game published by Audiogenic
• Impact (cyber security), the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism (Impact).

In science:

• Impact force, a high force or shock (mechanics) over a short time period
• Impact event, the collision of a meteoroid, asteroid or comet with Earth
• Impact crater, a meteor crater caused by an impact event
• Impact factor, a measure of the citations to a science or social science journal

In film, television, and radio:

• Impact (1949 film), a 1949 film noir starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines
• Impact, a ~1987 talk radio program hosted by Frank Sontag
• Impact (news music), a 1994 television news music package
• TNA Impact!, a 2004 professional wrestling television program

In literature:

• Impact (action entertainment magazine), a monthly action entertainment magazine
• Impact (student magazine), a student magazine for the University of Nottingham, England
• Student Impact, the student newspaper for the University of Bath, England
• Impact Press, an Orlando, Florida-based magazine
• IMPACT magazine, a scientologist magazine
• Impact Comics, a DC Comics imprint
• Impact (EC Comics), a 1955 EC Comics comic book
• Impact (Image Comics), an Image Comics comic book character

In music:

• Impact, a short-lived disco group formed in the mid-70s by Damon Harris
• Impact, a hardcore punk band from Orange County
• Impact, a progressive rock band from Naples, Italy.
• Impact, a trance project of Dutch producer Richard van Dongen
• Impact, a Romanian dance music group, formed in 1998
• Impact Records, an American record label

Organizations

• IMPACT, a charitable organization focusing on public and preventative interventions to stop preventable disability.

Other:

• Impact, prototype for the General Motors EV1 electric car
• Montreal Impact, a soccer team in the North American USL First Division
• Impact (typeface), a sans-serif typeface
• Impact, or Model Mugging, a form of women's self-defense
• Impact, Texas, a town in Taylor County, Texas, USA