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 (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 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
- Impact (action entertainment magazine) is a UK magazine dedicated to "action entertainment".
- Impact (student magazine) is the official magazine of the University of Nottingham Students' Union.
In sports and entertainment:
- Impact (band), a 1970s R&B/disco group, led by ex-Temptation Damon Harris
- Impact (1949 movie), a 1949 movie
- Impact (comic), a 1955 comic book
- TNA iMPACT!, a professional wrestling television program produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- Montreal Impact, a soccer team from Montreal, Quebec
- Impact (news music), a television news music package composed by 615 Music
- "Impact", a song by Against Me! from their 2001 EP Crime As Forgiven By
