Legacy vs Impact - What's the difference?
legacy | impact |
(legal) money or property bequeathed to someone in a will
Something inherited from a predecessor; a heritage
The descendant of an alumnus
(computing) of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain
left behind; old or no longer in active use
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 legacy and impact
is that legacy is money or property bequeathed to someone in a will while impact is the striking of one body against another; collision.As an adjective legacy
is of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain.As a verb impact is
to compress; to compact; to press or pack together.legacy
English
Noun
(legacies)- left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
- Because she was a legacy , her mother's sorority rushed her.
Adjective
(head)- They expect it to take years to process and import all the legacy data.
- ''A legacy number or legacy identifier means a number no longer in use (for a document, for example)."
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.
