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collision

noun
USkuh-LIZH-uhn/kəˈlɪʒən/

Pluralcollisions

4 meanings of collision

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  1. 1
    nouncountable
    An event where two moving things crash into each other.

    Like two toy cars smashing into each other on the floor.

    Both drivers were shaken up after the collision.

    A collision between the two boats left one of them leaking.

    Similarcrash, impact, smash, pileup, bump

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  2. 2
    nouncountable
    An event where two objects push hard on each other for a short time, even without touching.

    Like two magnets pushing each other away without ever touching.

    In a collision between two balls, motion passes from one to the other.

    A collision can happen even when the two objects never actually touch.

    Similarinteraction, encounter

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  3. 3
    noununcountableabbreviationclipping
    Short for collision detection. It means the game rule that stops objects from passing through each other.

    The game has no collision, so your character walks straight through walls.

    Turn on collision to stop players from falling through the floor.

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  4. 4
    nouncountableabbreviationclipping
    Short for naming collision. It means two things in code accidentally share the same name.

    We got a collision because two files used the same variable name.

    Rename one of the functions to avoid a collision in the code.

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Origin

It came from Latin, from a word meaning "to dash together," and it reached English through Middle French collision.