impact areas

Where effects land

Impact areas are zones designated to receive something—typically projectiles, debris, or effects from an activity.

In military and testing contexts, an impact area is where ordnance lands: The firing range's impact area was off-limits to civilians.

In organizational jargon, impact areas are categories where effort is concentrated: The foundation identified three key impact areas: education, health, and housing.

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collateral damage · collision · results · high stakes · environmental · blast radius · target zone · danger zone · kill zone · drop zone · social · economic · cultural · ballistics · fallout · footprint · splash zone · damage assessment

Opposites
source vs. destination

impact areaslaunch sites

Facilities for spacecraft departures

starting points · firing positions · launch pads · staging areas · epicenters

affected vs. unaffected

impact areasprotected zones

Areas with legal safeguards

protected areas · buffer zones · exclusion zones · neutral zones

consequence vs. cause

impact areasroot causes

Core sources of problems

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