Etymology

impactor

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Today it means: Any of several machines or devices in which a part impacts on another, or on a material. Full definition →

New Latin impāctor
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  1. New Latin · borrowed fromimpāctor
  2. English todayimpactor

Borrowed from New Latin impāctor, from impingō + -tor.

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