Impact and Potential

Impact

Impact noun - A forceful coming together of two things.

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

Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless

Potential noun - Something that can develop or become actual.

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Impact and potential are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Impact" instead a noun "Potential".

high	high impact	high potential
physical	physical impact	physical potential
true	true impact	true potential
sheer	sheer impact	sheer potential
Other adjectives: strong, powerful, actual, real, massive, large, big, great, serious, enormous, huge, little, major, dramatic, less, significant, tremendous, greater, greatest, commercial.

He also suggested a potential Hand Wave when the MythBusters couldn't set off the Hg fulminate with an impact: Walt used more volatile silver fulminate as a primary explosive.

Source: Artistic License Chemistry
The potential zones of impact form an implausibly-tidy pattern of concentric rings, and the fragment strikes dead center, even though the characters had admitted it was only a rough estimate.

Source: Exact Time to Failure
It got a little better in Second Impact and Third Strike once players realized the new characters had a lot of potential.

Source: Complacent Gaming Syndrome / Video Games

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