collision
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French collision, from Late Latin collisio, from Latin collidere, past participle collisus (“to dash together”); see collide.
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collision (countable and uncountable, plural collisions)
- An instance of colliding.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- 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.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- (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.
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TranslationsEdit
instance of colliding
collision — see wreck
Further readingEdit
- collision in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- collision in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
FrenchEdit
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collision f (plural collisions)
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Further readingEdit
- “collision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.