collider

English

Etymology

From collide +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

collider (plural colliders)

1. (physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
2. (graph theory) A node in a causal graph that has at least two incoming edges.
3. (video games) A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
   • 2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, page 339:

     The race controller will check for a trigger hit between this player's collider and the start/finish line trigger, but this script has an OnTriggerEnter function to check for triggers used to force a respawn.

Derived terms

• supercollider

Translations

particle accelerator

• Basque: talkagailu (eu)
• Catalan: col·lisonador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 对撞机 (zh) (duìzhuàngjī)

• Finnish: törmäytin
• French: collisionneur (fr) m
• Japanese: コライダー (koraidā)
• Macedonian: судирач m (sudirač)
• Polish: zderzacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: colisionador m, colisor (pt) m
• Russian: колла́йдер (ru) m (kollájdɛr)
• Spanish: colisionador m