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English

Etymology

From Old French impression, from Latin impressio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p????n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

impression (plural impressions)

1. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.

2. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.

3. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.

4. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
5. An outward appearance.
6. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad is shown once.
   • 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 329:

     Publishers are paid for each ad impression their site generates.

7. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
8. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
9. (philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.

Related terms

• impressionability
• impressionable
• impressional
• impressionism
• impressionist
• impressive
• under the impression

Translations

Verb

impression (third-person singular simple present impressions, present participle impressioning, simple past and past participle impressioned)

1. To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key.
   • 2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference (page 55)

     The trick in impressioning a key is to remove only a small amount of the blank, by filing or cutting, from the pin positions where impressions have been left.

Anagrams

• permission

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impressi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p??.sj??/, /??.p?e.sj??/

Noun

impression f (plural impressions)

1. an impression, the overall effect of something.
2. the indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on another.
3. a print, print-out

Derived terms

• faire bonne impression
• impressionnant
• impressionner
• impressionnisme
• impressionniste

Related terms

• empreindre
• imprimer
• imprimerie
• imprimante
• imprimable

Descendants

• Romanian: impresiune, impresie

Further reading

• “impression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• méprisions

English

Etymology

valid +? -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas.

Noun

validity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)

1. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
2. State of having legal force.
3. A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).

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