Concussion vs Impact - What's the difference?
concussion | impact | Related terms |
A violent collision or shock.
* Francis Bacon
An injury to part of the body, most especially the brain, caused by a violent blow, followed by loss of function.
(legal, civil law) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
* Daniel
The striking of one body against another; collision.
The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
(chiefly, medicine) A forced impinging.
A significant or strong influence; an effect.
To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
(proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an on.
To collide or strike.
Concussion is a related term of impact.
As nouns the difference between concussion and impact
is that concussion is a violent collision or shock while impact is the striking of one body against another; collision.As a verb impact is
to compress; to compact; to press or pack together.concussion
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air.
- Then concussion , rapine, pilleries, / Their catalogue of accusations fill.
Derived terms
* concussion fuse * concussion grenade ----impact
English
Noun
(en noun)- The hatchet cut the wood on impact .
- His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact , which caused numbness in his leg.
- His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.
- Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building's mechanical performance.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "impact": social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary. * The adposition generally used with "impact" is "on" (such as in last example in section above) * There are English speakers who are so ). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect'' and the verb sense with ''affect , which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as "the impact of late effects" is better stetted to avoid "the effect of [...] effects".)Derived terms
* impactful * impactive * impact statement * Western impactVerb
(en verb)- If fecal incontinence is caused by impacted stool in the rectum, the impaction must be removed.
- ''I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
- When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.