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collision detection

collision detection noun: the process or mechanism of determining whether two shapes are partially occupying the same space.

Noun

collision detection (countable and uncountable, plural collision detections)

  1. The process or mechanism of determining whether two shapes are partially occupying the same space.
  2. A mechanism in Ethernet to detect when two computers are sending frames at the same time, and also to deal with such collisions when they happen.

collision detection meaning in Tamil

collision detection in Tamil

மோதல் அறிதல்

Forms of collision detection

pluralcollision detections

Questions about collision detection

What does collision detection mean?
Collision detection means the process or mechanism of determining whether two shapes are partially occupying the same space.
What is collision detection in Tamil?
Collision detection in Tamil is மோதல் அறிதல். See Collision detection meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is collision detection?
Collision detection is a noun.
What is the plural of collision detection?
The plural of collision detection is collision detections.

Words near collision detection in the dictionary

  1. collision attacks
  2. collision bulkhead
  3. collision bulkheads
  4. collision course
  5. collision courses
  6. collision detection
  7. collision detections
  8. collision mat
  9. collision mats
  10. collision theories
  11. collision theory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collision detection (page history and authors); collision detection (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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