Input vs Impact - What's the difference?
input | impact |
The act or process of putting in; infusion.
That which is put in, as in an amount.
Contribution, or share in a contribution.
Something fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the outputs of that process.
To put in; put on.
To data.
To accept data that is entered.
* 2009 , J Stanley Warford, Computer Systems
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.
In transitive terms the difference between input and impact
is that input is to accept data that is entered while impact is to collide or strike.input
English
(wikipedia input)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* input deviceVerb
- The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age.
- The program inputs a value for the integer variable num and compares it with the constant integer limit.
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.