Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Impact \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}.]
1. To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a
place. --Woodward.
[1913 Webster]
2. To affect or influence, especially in a significant or
undesirable manner; as, budget cuts impacted the entire
research program; the fish populations were adversely
impacted by pollution.
[PJC]
3. To collide forcefully with; to strike.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Impacted \Im*pact"ed\, a.
1. Driven together or close.
[1913 Webster]
2. Specifically: (Dentistry) Grown in an abnormal direction
so that it is wedged against another tooth and cannot
erupt normally; -- of teeth, especially the third molar;
as, to extract an impacted third molar.
[PJC]
{Impacted fracture} (Surg.), a fracture in which the
fragments are driven into each other so as to be
immovable.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impacted
adj 1: wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn:
{impacted}, {wedged}]
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