Impacting

verb

1. To collide or strike, the act of impinging.

   "When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends."

2. To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.

   "The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do."

3. To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.

   "I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule."

4. To stamp or impress onto something.

   "Ideas impacted on the mind."