collision
/kəˈlɪʒn̩/
collision noun: an instance of colliding. Also the clipping of naming collision.
Noun
collision (countable and uncountable, plural collisions)
- An instance of colliding.
- He has retired due to the collision.
- 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...1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus
- 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.
Also used as
collision is also the clipping of naming collision.
collision is also the clipping of collision detection.
collision meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Punjabi
collision in Hindi
- instance of colliding
- टक्कर ṭakkar
collision in Urdu
- instance of colliding
- ٹَکْراو ṭakrāv, ٹَکَّر ṭakkar
collision in Malayalam
- കൂട്ടിയിടി
collision in Punjabi
- ਟੱਕਰ, ਟੱਕਰ ਲੱਗੀ
More languagesFewer languages
- collision in Gujarati
- ટક્કર
- collision in Odia
- ଧକ୍କା
- collision in Nepali
- टक्कर
- collision in Arabic
- تَصَادُّم taṣāddum, اِصْطِدَام iṣṭidām
- collision in Persian
- برخورد bar-xord
Examples of collision in a sentence
- A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.
- "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.
Forms of collision
| plural | collisions |
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Origin of collision
From Middle French collision, from Latin collīsiō (“clash, concussion, collision”) (whence -ion (noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition)), from collīsus (“clashed together, conflicted, contended”), past participle of collīdō (“to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together”) (whence collide), from con- (“together”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence col- (assimilated form of com-)).
Words formed from collision
- 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
- frontal collision
- head-on collision
- intercollision
- multicollision
- naming collision
- noncollision
- on a collision course
- postcollision
- precollision
- rear-end collision
- recollision
- supercollision
Phrases with collision
Words that rhyme with collision
- division
- vision
- circumcision
- concision
- decision
- excision
- Frisian
- incision
- misprision
- precision
- revision
- television
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Questions about collision
- What does collision mean?
- Collision means an instance of colliding.
- What is collision in Hindi?
- Collision in Hindi is टक्कर (ṭakkar). See Collision meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is collision?
- Collision is a noun.
- How do you pronounce collision?
- Collision is pronounced /kəˈlɪʒn̩/.
- What is the plural of collision?
- The plural of collision is collisions.
Words near collision in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: collision (page history and authors); collision (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collision (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collision (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collision (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collision (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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