impact

have an impact on (someone or something)

To affect or influence someone or something. Of course your decision has an impact on me—I'm your wife! Don't worry, your grade on that assignment has very little impact upon your overall grade for the semester.
See also: have, impact, on

impact (up)on (someone or something)

To affect or influence someone or something. Of course your decision impacts on me—I'm your wife! Don't worry, your grade on that assignment won't impact upon your overall grade for the semester.
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upon impact

At the instant physical contact or a collision occurred. The egg smashed upon impact with the cement. No, sir, the pilot died upon impact.
See also: impact, upon
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

have an impact on someone or something

to leave an impression on someone or something. The sharp change in interest rates had an impact on the housing market. Your story really had an impact on me.
See also: have, impact, on

impact (up)on someone or something

[for something] to have an effect on someone or something. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) This plant closing will impact upon the local economy for years to come. The day's troubles impacted on Rachel quite seriously.
See also: impact, on

upon impact

Fig. at the place or time of an impact. The car crumpled upon impact with the brick wall. The man who fell from the top of the building died on impact.
See also: impact, upon
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

impact on

v.
To have an effect on someone or something: The results of the election will impact on upcoming legislation.
See also: impact, on
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • have an impact on
  • have an impact on (someone or something)
  • impact (up)on (someone or something)
  • impact on
  • halfhearted
  • half-hearted about (someone or something)
  • a shot in the locker
  • locker
  • failed
  • failing
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The implementation of the new axle load norms will have a positive impact on the revenue of fleet owners serving the cement, steel, tanker (POL, Edible Oil, and Alcohol), market load, auto carrier (2W/4W), and LPG cylinder segments.
Number of Journals with Impact Factor in different countries in the Region.
This material model is smooth surface cap model and employed to model the dynamic behavior of concrete material under impact loading.
These results show that majority Pakistanis believe the outcome of the American election will tend to have a very high impact on the country in terms of economic progress, trade, peace etc.
Scientists are ranked by weighting each of their publications according to the impact factor of the journal in which it appeared.
As the impact is a highly nonlinear problem [9], the failure destruction is defined with the rupture strain failure criteria, which means that when the plastic strain of finite element mesh is bigger than the maximum effective plastic strain of the material, the pipeline will have a fracture failure.
The new polymer blend technology has facilitated the development of grades with an improved impact/stiffness relation compared to standard POM impact modified grades.
For more information about Impact Color LLC: www.impact-color.com
PROGRAMME: COUNTRY FOCUS * Saving: pounds 63,000 * Impact: Given the importance of agriculture to large swathes of the country, closing this programme will be the loss of another distinctive part of our schedule.
Impact modifiers for polystyrene and polyolefin applications.
* How large is the overall economic impact on the state of Tennessee and on Shelby County of two scenarios that reflect reduction levels of 75.0 percent and 50.0 percent respectively of the amount of the TennCare reduction currently proposed at the state level?
Generally speaking compression machines do not provide the amount of reduction that an impact machine does.
When it's time to break loose tough hardware, nothing does the job better than a manual impact wrench.
For regulations, its emphasis is on impact analysis, particularly of economic impacts, as well as interagency coordination of regulations and consideration of alternative rules and regulatory approaches.
Does this mean that nursing research journals have relatively little impact, influence, or importance?