Usually means: Device or object that strikes another.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. impactor: Merriam-Webster
  2. impactor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Impactor, impactor: Wordnik
  4. impactor: Wiktionary
  5. impactor: Dictionary.com
  6. Impactor (spacecraft), Impactor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impactor: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impactor)

▸ noun:  Any of several machines or devices in which a part impacts on another, or on a material.
▸ noun:  An object which impacts another.

Similar:
indenter, vibroimpact, implement, appliance, pulverator, instrument, inflector, crusher, roller, impact driver, more...

Opposite:
non-impactor, unaffected, uninvolved, unrelated

Types:
asteroid, meteor, comet, bolide, more...

Phrases:
cascade impactor, more...

Adjectives:
stage, virtual, low, pressure, large, personal, volume, single, conventional, inertial, narrow



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Similar:
indenter, vibroimpact, implement, appliance, pulverator, instrument, inflector, crusher, roller, impact driver, more...

Opposite:
non-impactor, unaffected, uninvolved, unrelated

Types:
asteroid, meteor, comet, bolide, more...

Phrases:
cascade impactor, more...

Adjectives:
stage, virtual, low, pressure, large, personal, volume, single, conventional, inertial, narrow



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