Noun impingement has 2 senses
  1. impingement, encroachment, impact - influencing strongly; "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture"
    --1 is a kind of influence
    Derived form: verb impinge1
  2. impingement, impaction - a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something
    --2 is a kind of crash, smash
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