Impact and Leverage

Impact

Impact noun - A forceful coming together of two things.

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Leverage and impact are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Leverage" instead a noun "Impact".

Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless

Leverage noun - The power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly.

Usage example: lacking much of the leverage it once had, the union is now being forced to make some humiliating concessions

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Impact and leverage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Impact" instead a noun "Leverage".

Nearby Words: lever, levered, leveraged, leveraging

low	low impact	low leverage
actual	actual impact	actual leverage
real	real impact	real leverage
massive	massive impact	massive leverage
Other adjectives: little, social, less, further, extra, significant, greater, added, financial.

The leverage is all off; with the front wheels acting as a fulcrum, the point of impact is too close to that point to lift the back end very high.

Source: Just For Fun / Tropes Examined by the MythBusters
Impulse being faster than Kid Flash means that he's also more fragile; while Kid Flash can't tank hits, he often uses himself as a cannonball or a battering ram, with his speed giving him leverage, force, and impact.

Source: Fragile Speedster
Physics come to mind, with the whole business of momentum, leverage and other stuff, and the physics say that a device with the entire weight concentrated at the point of impact achieves the maximal effect.

Source: Literature / Xenos

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