impairment

English

Alternative forms

• empairment (rare)

Etymology

From impair +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɛə(ɹ)mənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

impairment (countable and uncountable, plural impairments)

1. The result of being impaired
2. A deterioration or weakening
   • 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:

     We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.

3. A disability or handicap

   visual impairment

4. an inefficient part or factor.
5. (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

Derived terms

• amnestic mild cognitive impairment
• specific language impairment

 

Translations

result of being impaired

• Bikol Central: kakundian
• Dutch: handicap (nl) m
• Finnish: häiriö (fi), vika (fi), vamma (fi)
• French: handicap (fr) m
• German: Verschlechterung (de) f, Schwächung (de) f, Behinderung (de) f, Beeinträchtigung (de) f, Minderung (de) f, Verminderung (de) f, Schädigung (de) f, Störung (de) f, Abschwächung (de) f, Schmälerung f, Einschränkung (de) f, Wertminderung (de) f
• Hungarian: romlás (hu), megromlás (hu), leromlás (hu), gyengülés (hu), károsodás (hu), rosszabbodás (hu), csökkenés (hu)
• Irish: lagú m
• Italian: indebolimento (it)
• Macedonian: нарушување (narušuvanje), оштетување (oštetuvanje), намалување (namaluvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svekkelse m

• Serbo-Croatian: oštećenje, hendikep (sh), onesposobljenost

accounting

• Danish: nedskrivning c
• Finnish: arvonalentuminen, arvonalennus
• Greek: απομείωση (el) f (apomeíosi)
• Swedish: nedskrivning (sv) c