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Impact

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Impact may refer to:

  • Impact (mechanics), a high force or shock (mechanics) over a short time period
  • Impact, Texas, a town in Taylor County, Texas, US

Science and technology

  • Impact crater, a meteor crater caused by an impact event
  • Impact event, the collision of a meteoroid, asteroid or comet with Earth
  • Impact factor, a measure of the citations to a science or social science journal

Books and magazines

  • Impact (novel), a 2010 novel by Douglas Preston
  • Impact Press, a former Orlando, Florida-based magazine
  • Impact Magazines, a former UK magazine publisher
  • Impact (action entertainment magazine), a former monthly action entertainment magazine that focus on Asian action cinema and anime
  • Impact (UNESCO magazine), a former UNESCO quarterly titled IMPACT of science on society
  • Impact (student magazine), a student magazine for the University of Nottingham, England
  • Bathimpact, the student newspaper for the University of Bath Students' Union, England
  • Vice Impact, a channel of Vice Media

Comics

  • Impact Comics, a DC Comics imprint
  • Impact (EC Comics), a 1955 EC Comics comic book
  • Impact (Image Comics), an Image Comics comic book character

Film and television

  • Impact (TV programme), a BBC World News weekday programme
  • Impact (1949 film), a 1949 film noir starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines
  • Impact (1963 film), a 1963 crime thriller starring Conrad Phillips
  • Impact (mini-series), a 2008 television mini-series starring Natasha Henstridge and David James Elliott
  • Impact! (TV series), the flagship television broadcast of the American professional wrestling promotion Impact Wrestling
  • Impact (2002 UK TV series), a two-part British television miniseries

Record labels

  • Impact Records, an American record label
  • Impact Records (California), a California record label in the 1960s
  • Impact (record label), a New Zealand record label

Albums

  • Impact, an album by thrash metal band Dew-Scented
  • Impact (1972 Charles Tolliver album), a live album by Charles Tolliver released on Enja Records
  • Impact (1975 Charles Tolliver album), a studio album by Charles Tolliver released on Strata-East Records
  • Impact (Eye Empire album)

Businesses and organisations

  • Impact Confections, a candy company founded in 1981
  • Impact! Miniatures, a company producing 28mm wargaming figures
  • IMPACT International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats
  • IMPACT, Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union
  • IMPACT, Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust
  • IMPACT (British organisation), a charity focusing on public and preventative interventions to stop preventable disability
  • IMPACT (Canadian organization), a charity focusing on natural resources in conflict areas
  • IMPACT (computer graphics), a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstations
  • Impact Wrestling, a professional wrestling organization founded in 2002

Sport

  • CF Montréal, formerly known as Montreal Impact, a soccer (football) team in Major League Soccer, the top tier of North American professional soccer
  • Montreal Impact (1992–2011), predecessor to the above team, that played in several second-level North American leagues during its history

Other uses

  • Impact (video game player) (Jeong Eon-yeong, born 1995)
  • Impact (typeface), a sans-serif typeface
  • Impact evaluation, a way of evaluating changes from an intervention or development programme
  • Impact (custom car), a custom-built 1934 Ford roadster

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Impact
  • All pages with titles containing Impact
  • Impaction (disambiguation)
  • Impaakt, a crowdsourced sustainability platform that rates companies’ impact on the world and society
  • Influence (disambiguation)
  • Effect (disambiguation)
  • Collision (disambiguation)
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