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dellimpatto

dell'impatto is the contracted form of the Italian preposition di combined with l'impatto, the masculine singular noun meaning impact or effect. It is used to express possession or relation in phrases such as “the impact of,” and appears before a noun that takes the definite article l’ (the) in Italian. The standard spelling includes the apostrophe after di, producing dell'impatto.

In usage, dell'impatto occurs in a wide range of formal and technical contexts. It is common in

Orthography and style notes: the correct form is dell'impatto with an apostrophe, because it is the result

environmental,
economic,
and
social
discourse,
for
example
in
phrases
like
la
valutazione
dell'impatto
ambientale
(the
assessment
of
the
environmental
impact)
or
la
portata
dell'impatto
economico
(the
extent
of
the
economic
impact).
It
also
appears
in
expressions
such
as
mitigare
l'impatto
dell'inquinamento
(to
mitigate
the
impact
of
pollution)
and
l'aumento
dell'impatto
sociale
di
una
policy
(the
increase
of
the
social
impact
of
a
policy).
of
di
+
l'
followed
by
a
vowel-starting
noun.
A
form
written
without
the
apostrophe,
dellimpatto,
is
not
standard
Italian
and
may
appear
only
in
constrained
contexts
such
as
certain
databases
or
headlines
where
punctuation
is
omitted.
The
construction
is
part
of
general
Italian
prepositional
contraction
rules
and
does
not
represent
a
distinct
lexical
entry
beyond
the
contracted
phrase.