IMPACTED

impacted, wedged

(adjective) wedged or packed in together; “an impacted tooth”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

impacted

simple past tense and past participle of impact

Adjective

impacted (comparative more impacted, superlative most impacted)

Having undergone an impact.

(dentistry) Of a tooth, subject to dental impaction.

(US, economics) Having lost property revenue due to Federal presence, such that it may receive impact aid.

Source: Wiktionary


Im*pact"ed, a.

Definition: Driven together or close. Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.

IMPACT

Im*pact", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Impacting.] Etym: [L. impactus, p. p. of impingere to push, strike against. See Impinge.]

Definition: To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.

Im"pact, n.

1. Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated. The quarrel, by that impact driven. Southey.

2. (Mech.)

Definition: The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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LEND

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