Meaning of COLLISION
| Pronunciation: | | ku'lizhun
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- [n] a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a collision of interests"
- [n] an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object; "three passengers were killed in the collision"; "the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill"
- [n] (physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"
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| | See Also: | | accident, conflict, contact, difference, difference of opinion, dispute, fender-bender, impinging, pileup, smash, smash-up, striking | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Col*li"sion\, n. [L. collisio, fr. collidere. See
{Collide}.]
1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of
two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains;
a clashing.
2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.
The collision of contrary false principles. --Bp.
Warburton.
Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. --W.
Irving.
Syn: Conflict; clashing; encounter; opposition.
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| | Definition: | | 1. When two hosts transmit on a network at once causing their packets to collide and corrupt each other. See collision detection. 2. hash collision. |
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| | Related Terms: | | accident, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, appulse, backlash, bad blood, belligerence, blow, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, calamity, cannon, carambole, carom, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, clash, clashing, competition, concussion, conflict, confrontation, confutation, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, contretemps, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crack-up, crankiness, crash, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, crump, crunch, demolishment, despitefulness, destruction, dilapidation, disaccord, disagreement, disaster, discrepancy, dissension, dissent, encounter, enmity, fractiousness, friction, grief, hammering, hate, hatred, hostility, ill hap, impact, impingement, inconsistency, inimicalness, interference, jar, jolt, kick, malevolence, malice, malignity, mauling, meeting, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, near-miss, negativeness, nonconformity, noncooperation, obstinacy, onslaught, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, percussion, perverseness, perversity, pileup, polarity, quarrelsomeness, ramming, reaction, recalcitrance, recoil, refractoriness, renitency, repercussion, repugnance, resistance, revolt, rivalry, ruin, shipwreck, shock, showdown, sideswipe, sledgehammering, smash, smashing, smashup, smash-up, spite, spitefulness, staggering blow, swimming upstream, thrusting, tragedy, uncooperativeness, vying, whomp, wreck |
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