collision
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French collision, from Late Latin collīsiō, from Latin collīdere, past participle collīsus (“to dash together”); see collide. cf. allision.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kəˈlɪʒən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪʒən
Noun
[edit]collision (countable and uncountable, plural collisions)
- An instance of colliding.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- (physics) Any event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other in a relatively short time. In a collision, physical contact of two bodies is not necessary.
- (software compilation) Clipping of naming collision.
- (computing, chiefly video games) Clipping of collision detection; tangibility.
Hyponyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- anticollision
- collisional
- collision attack
- collision bulkhead
- collision course
- collision detection
- collisionless
- collision mat
- collision theory
- collision time
- COLREGS
- Coulomb collision
- deep inelastic collision
- elastic collision
- head-on collision
- intercollision
- multicollision
- naming collision
- noncollision
- on a collision course
- postcollision
- precollision
- rear-end collision
- recollision
- supercollision
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]instance of colliding
collision — see wreck
Further reading
[edit]- “collision”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “collision”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin collīsiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]collision f (plural collisions)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “collision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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