Exposure vs Impact - What's the difference?
exposure | impact |
(senseid)(uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
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, title= (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.
(uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
* 1993 , (Paul Chadwick), The Ugly Boy , Dark Horse Books
(senseid)(photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
(photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
(photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
(gardening) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.
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.
As nouns the difference between exposure and impact
is that exposure is (condition) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected 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.exposure
English
(wikipedia exposure)Noun
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- As all of you know, a great tragedy occurred yesterday. Arthur Harcourt died of exposure sometimes in the morning in the woods off Mount Tom Road.
Derived terms
* double exposure * multiple exposure * time exposureimpact
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.
