Impact

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Impact may refer to:

  • IMPACT Laboratory, an International Multi-User Plasma, Atmospheric and Cosmic Dust Twin Laboratory, the premier research facility for plasma and dust research onboard the International Space Station
  • Impact crater caused by Impact event
  • IMPACT (computer graphics), a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstations
  • Impact Finite Element Program, an open source finite element program
  • Impact force, the (possibly destructive) effect of transfer of energy from one object striking another resulting in a near-instant change of relative velocity
  • Impact wrench, a socket wrench power tool that uses impact force
  • Impact or Model Mugging, a form of women's self-defense
  • In risk assessment, impact is the magnitude of the potential loss or seriousness of the event
  • Impact (typeface), a popular typeface, most commonly used for Image Macros
  • International Movement of Political Activist Classroom Teachers
  • An impact rating gives a measure of scientific journal quality
  • Impact (research group), or Illinois Microarchitecture Project utilizing Advanced Compiler Technology, a research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign led by Professor Wen-mei Hwu that group researches cutting-edge computer architecture and compilers, most notably the EPIC architecture developed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard. The IMPACT Compiler is the flagship project that this group has developed

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