Impression
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Impression can mean:
mishika David Hume uses the word "impression" as he defines it in "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding".
- In eastern philosophy, Meher Baba uses the word "impression" as the best English approximation of the Sanskrit Sanskara in his essays in Discourses.
- Impression, a dental procedure
- The Impressions (American band), a 1960s/1970s American soul musical act from Chicago, Illinois led by Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler
- Impressions Games (previously known as Impressions) was a video game developer.
- Impressions (album), an album by jazz artist John Coltrane, featuring the composition "Impressions" (instrumental).
- Impression (Dragonriders of Pern), is a monumental event in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, when a human bonds with a telepathic dragon for life.
- As entertainment, an impression is performed to mimic a well-known personality, using gestures, tone, or rhythm; such a performer who engages in this type of entertainer is an impressionist (entertainment).
- impression is a advertising term referring to an instance where an advertisment is viewed. This applies particularly to online advertising.