Etymology
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From Middle French collision, from Late Latin collīsiō, from Latin collīdere, past participle collīsus (“to dash together”); see collide.
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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.
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Translations
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instance of colliding
- American Sign Language: (general) 5@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross-5@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross S@Tip-TipAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-TipAcross, (multiple vehicles) 3@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross-3@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross S@Tip-TipAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-TipAcross, (vehicle with a stationary object) 3@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-TipAcross S@Tip-TipAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-TipAcross, (vehicle with a person) 3@SideChesthigh-FingerAcross-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerUp S@Finger-TipFinger-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerUp
- Arabic: تَصَادُّم m (taṣāddum), اِصْطِدَام m (iṣṭidām)
- Armenian: բախում (hy) (baxum)
- Azerbaijani: toqquşma (az)
- Basque: talka
- Belarusian: сутыкне́нне n (sutyknjénnje)
- Bulgarian: сблъ́скване (bg) n (sblǎ́skvane)
- Catalan: col·lisió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 碰撞 (zh) (pèngzhuàng)
- Czech: srážka (cs) f
- Danish: kollision c
- Dutch: botsing (nl) f
- Esperanto: kolizio
- Finnish: kolari (fi), yhteentörmäys (fi), törmäys (fi)
- French: collision (fr) f
- Galician: colisión f
- Georgian: შეჯახება (šeǯaxeba), დაჯახება (daǯaxeba)
- German: Zusammenstoß (de) m, Kollision (de) f
- Greek: σύγκρουση (el) f (sýgkrousi)
- Ancient: κροῦσις f (kroûsis), σύρραξις f (súrrhaxis)
- Hebrew: הִתנַגְשׁוּת f (hitnagshut)
- Hindi: टक्कर (hi) f (ṭakkar)
- Hungarian: ütközés (hu)
- Icelandic: árekstur (is) m, ákeyrsla (is) f
- Italian: collisione (it) f
- Japanese: 衝突 (ja) (しょうとつ, shōtotsu)
- Korean: 충돌(衝突) (ko) (chungdol)
- Latin: collisio f, conflictus m
- Macedonian: судир m (sudir)
- Maori: tūtakitanga, hūtakitanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kollisjon (no) m
- Nynorsk: kollisjon m
- Persian: برخورد (fa) (bar-xord)
- Polish: kolizja (pl) f, zderzenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: colisão (pt) f
- Romanian: ciocnire (ro) f, coliziune (ro) f
- Russian: столкнове́ние (ru) n (stolknovénije), колли́зия (ru) f (kollízija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су̏да̄р m
- Roman: sȕdār (sh) m
- Slovak: zrážka f
- Slovene: trk (sl) m, trčenje n
- Spanish: colisión (es) f
- Swedish: kollision (sv) c, kollidering c, krock (sv) c
- Ukrainian: зі́ткнення n (zítknennja), зуда́р m (zudár)
- Urdu: ٹَکْراو f (ṭakrāv), ٹَکَّر f (ṭakkar)
- White Hmong: tsoo
- Yakut: анньыһыы (annyıhıı)
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Further reading
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- “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.