Collision

Definition: Collision

Collision

Noun

1. An event in which two or more bodies come together.

2. The act of colliding with something.

3. 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".

Date "collision" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Etymology: Collision \Col*li"sion\, noun. [Latin expression collisio, from collidere. See Collide.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Collision 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. (1995-01-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Aerospace	An encounter between two particles that changes their existing momentum and energy conditions. See elastic collision.The products of the collision may or may not be the same as the precollision particles. The collision may be actual contact or the close approach and deflection of the particles. (references)
Dream Interpretation	To dream of a collision, you will meet with an accident of a serious type and disappointments in business. For a young woman to see a collision, denotes she will be unable to decide between lovers, and will be the cause of wrangles. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Math	When two or more items should be kept in the same location, especially in hash tables, that is, when two or more different keys hash to the same value. (references)
Physics	An interaction between two particles(including photons), which changes the existing momentum and/or energy conditions. Source: European Union. (references)
Post & Telecom	The result of two devices on a shared transmission medium, like Ethernet, transmitting simultaneously. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
COLREGS	English	Collision Regulations 1972	Law, Transportation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Collision

Synonyms: crash (n), hit (n), smash (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contention	Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle.
Counteraction	Noun: counteraction, opposition; contrariety; antagonism, polarity; clashing; Verb: collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction; (recoil); counterblast; neutralization; (compensation); vis inertiae; check; (hindrance).
Impulse	Percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge; (attack); beating; (punishment).
	Come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.
Opposition	Clashing, collision, conflict.
Recoil	Elastic collision, coefficient of restitution.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Collision

English words defined with "collision": air bag ♦ blow, bump ♦ collision course, Conflict of laws, cosmic ray ♦ fender-bender, frontal, Full-butt ♦ Hardhead, head-on, Hummocking ♦ impaction, impingement ♦ K particle, kaon, kappa-meson, kill, k-meson ♦ near miss ♦ Occursion ♦ pi-meson, pion, Prester ♦ Rencounter ♦ smash, smash-up ♦ telescope, To fall abroad of, To fall foul of, To run afoul of, To run in ♦ wind, Wrecking car. (references)

Specialty definitions using "collision": billiard-ball collision, both blame collision clause ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance, carrier sense multiple access with collision detection, collision broadening, Collision Convention 1910, collision cross section, collision detection, collision frequency, collision parameter, collision rate, Coulomb collision ♦ elastic collision ♦ hash collision ♦ inelastic collision ♦ lead collision course. (references)

Etymologies containing "collision": Full-butt. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Collision" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (clash, collision, hit, jar, shock, shunt, smash).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's the insurance damage waiver for your beautiful new car. Will you need collision coverage? (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) And I while I'm doing that, I have gotten that extra collision coverage. (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)
Movie/TV Titles	Collision (1932) A Train Collision (1901) Collision et naufrage en mer (1898) Backseat Driver 3: Anal Collision! (1998) New Japan Collision In Korea (1995)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998 (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Collision Estimating Guide - European Ed (reference) Heavy Truck & Trailer Collision Estimating Guide (reference) I-car Uniform Procedures For Collision Repair - Cd Rom (reference) Imported Older Model Collision Estimating Guide (reference) Mitchell Collision Est & Rep Manual (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Dragonball Z, Vol. 13 - Collision (reference) Pride FC - Collision Course (reference) The Crocodile Hunter - Collision Course (reference) Collision Course (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Beautiful Collision (reference) World of Collision (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has uncovered a collision between two spiral galaxies ... Credit: NASA.		In the weeks following comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's spectacular July collision with Jupiter, a ... Credit: NASA.
	Collision of two gasses ("cometary knots") in the Helix Nebula in the constellation Aquarius. Credit: NASA.		Result of collision between cow and steel truck Triangulation party of H.C. Warwick. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	At Subic Bay, Philippines, showing damage to her bow received in a collision with USS Columbus (CA-74) on 11 March 1956. Credit: NAVY.		Undocking from ARD-22 at Subic Bay, Philippines, circa late March or early April 1956, after being fitted with a temporary bow to allow her to steam to the United States for permanent repairs. She had been damaged in a collision with USS Columbus (CA-74) on 11 March 1956. Credit: NAVY.
	Artwork by Erik Heyl, 1957, for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume III. Built in Scotland in 1863, Thistle was a blockade runner until captured on 4 June 1864. She served as USS Dumbarton in 1864-1867 and was the merchantman Dumbarton in 1867-1868. Rerigged and reengined in 1868, she operated under the British flag as the SS City of Quebec until sunk in a collision on 1 May 1870. Credit: NAVY.		Collision course?. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Our picture shows the control panel of the installation VEPP-2 with opposing charged particle beams in which they are going to realize collision of electrons and positrons with relative power of two thousand milliard electron-volts, being made at the Inst. Credit: Library of Congress.		Repairing a lake carrier after a collision. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Skidded; skidding; skid; car accident; crash; automobile accident; impact; collision; accident; crunch; smash; smashed; smashing; fender tag; fender-bender; pileup; ram; rear-ender; shock; sideswipe; smash; smash-up; stack-up; thud; thump; total; washout.		Bonk; bang; bat; bell ringer; belt; biff; blow; buffet; bump; butt; chop; clash; clip; clout; collision; cuff; fisticuff; glance; haymaker; impact; knock; leather; lick; one-two; one-two punch; paste; pat; plunk; punch; rap; rap; roundhouse; shock; shot; .
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The collision with the mail wagon had broken two spokes and loosened the hub so that the nut no longer held.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Ford has been the first to confirm such anticipation when the company announced that collision (body repairs) would be part of its upcoming projects. (references)
		One notable exception is the technology that has been developed under the guidance of Swedish scientist Hakan Lans. The Global Positioning and Communication System (GP&C) is an "intelligent data link" which can be installed in aircraft to provide identification and highly accurate data on latitude and longitude, altitude, heading and time. Lans believes that GP&C has the capability of replacing any navigational aids currently in existence, while also providing a data link, precision approach capability, and collision avoidance in the air and on the ground. (references)
Economic History	Afghanistan	Collision between the expanding British and Russian Empires significantly influenced Afghanistan during the 19th century in what was termed "The Great Game." British concern over Russian advances in Central Asia and growing influence in Persia culminated in two Anglo-Afghan wars. (references)
Political Economy	NIGERIA	The new wage review has, however, set many state governments and their employees on a collision course. (references)
	China	Political relations with the U.S. temporarily deteriorated following the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in May 1999 and again following the collision of a U.S. EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft and a Chinese fighter in international airspace in April 2001. Bilateral relations have gradually recovered from both incidents, though differences between the U.S. and Chinese governments on some political issues continue occasionally to color the relationship. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope. "Why have you halted?" roared the commander of a division and Chickamauga, who had ordered a charge; "move forward, sir, at once." "General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	By this arrangement useless expense on both sides and, what is of still greater importance, the danger of collision between armed vessels in those inland waters, which was great, is prevented.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	Such collision has, never the less, recently taken place by occurrences the precise character of which has not yet been ascertained.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	If by a collision with France in a case where she is clearly in the wrong the march of liberal principles shall be impeded, the responsibility for that result as well as every other will rest on her own head.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Collision" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Collision" is used about 622 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.84%	621	10,417
Noun (common)	0.16%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	622	N/A

Expressions using "collision": aerial collision ♦ animal/vehicle collision avoidance system ♦ be in collision ♦ be on collision course ♦ both blame collision clause ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision avoid ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision detection ♦ collision avoidance system ♦ Collision Convention 1910 ♦ collision course ♦ collision detection ♦ Collision Regulations 1972 ♦ collision warning ♦ collision warning system ♦ come into collision ♦ come into collision with ♦ CSMA with collision avoid ♦ elastic collision ♦ hash collision ♦ inelastic collision ♦ lead collision course ♦ midair collision ♦ multiple collision ♦ near collision ♦ restricted linear collision stopping power. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "collision": collision-avoidance, collision-free.
	Ending with "collision": post-collision, pre-collision.
	Containing "collision": anti-collision lights.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "collision"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		botsing. (various references)

Albanian		përplasje (bang, bump, clap, clash, crash, encounter, flap, fling, impact, slam), ndeshje (clash, combat, competition, encounter, fight, fighting, jarring, match, play), konflikt (clash, conflict, contravention, dispute, strife). (various references)

Arabic		‏تعارض (clash, collide, conflict, contradict, disagree, disagreement, discrepancy, fly in the face of, incongruity, interfere, repugnance, run against smth.), ‏تضارب (clash, collide, conflict, contrariety, disagree, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, inconsistency, interfere, interference, jar, quarrel), ‏تصادم (clash, collide, impact, interfere, jar, jostle, meet, shock). (various references)

Bulgarian		стълкновение (conflict, foul, impact, turnup, tussle, war). (various references)

Chinese		碰�'� (Bumped, Bumping, Clash, Collide, Crashed, Crashing). (various references)

Czech		srážka (clash, crash, deduction, impact, impingement, melee). (various references)

Danish		sammenstoed, sammenstød (clashing, impaction, shock), kollision (boarding). (various references)

Dutch		botsing (clashing, impact, impaction, shock), aanvaring (boarding, collision of ships). (various references)

Esperanto		kolizio. (various references)

Faeroese		samanstoytur. (various references)

Finnish		yhteentörmäys (crash), törmäys (bump, crash). (various references)

French		collision (COLL., COLLN), choc (concussion, conflict). (various references)

Frisian		oanriding, oanfarring. (various references)

German		kollision (clash, conflict), karambolage (cannon, carom, crash, smash up). (various references)

Greek		σύγκρουση (buffer, clash, conflict, crash, crush, impact, percussion, pile-up). (various references)

Hebrew		�"תרוצצות (clash, fuss, hustle, legwork, running about, rushing around), �"ת� �'שות (clash, conflict, crash, dash, encounter, skirmish, smash), �"ת� צחות (altercation, clash, conflict, fray). (various references)

Hungarian		ütközés (hurtling, impact, impingement, shock), összeütközés (bump, clash, clashing, concourse, conflict, confrontation, cope, dash, hurtling, impact, impingement), karambol (carom, hurtling, rear-ender). (various references)

Indonesian		tubrukan (crash, impact), perbentrokan. (various references)

Italian		collisione (bump, clash, crash, impact, interference, shock), urto (bump, clash, crash, dash, dig, hit, impact, jar, knock, push, shake, shock, shove), investimento (investment). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		衝突 (conflict), 抵触 (being contrary or incompatible, conflict). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうとつ (conflict), コリジョン , ていしょく (being contrary or incompatible, color, coloration, coloring, conflict, contradiction, incompatibility, occupation, permanent planting, regular work, set meal, special, steady job, suspension from office). (various references)

Korean		충돌 (Clash, Conflict, crash). (various references)

Malay		tubrukan. (various references)

Manx		covuilley (collide, concussion, reciprocate, reciprocating). (various references)

Pig Latin		ollisioncay

Portuguese		colisão (bump, conflict, crash, dash, shock, smash), choque (affection, bump, chunking, clash, concussion, conflict, crash, dash, foul, impact, impingement, knock, shake, shock, smash, smashup, strain). (various references)

Romanian		conflict (clash, conflict, dispute, encounter, fray, friction, jar, quarrel, strife, struggle, war), coliziune (hit), colizie, ciocnire (affair, bump, clash, click, concussion, conflict, contradiction, dash, encounter, foul, hit, impact, jar, jostle, passage, shock), carambol (cannon, carom), abordaj. (various references)

Russian		коллизия. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sudar (brush, clash, crash, impact, shock, smash). (various references)

Spanish		colisión (wreck), choque (accident, clash, conflict, crash, hit, jar, jolt, knock, shock, smash), abordaje (boarding, grappling), atropallamiento. (various references)

Swedish		kollision (crash, foul, impact, jostle, prang), sammanstötning (clash, conflict, encounter, impact). (various references)

Turkish		toslama, fikir ayrılığı (clash of ideas, conflict, difference, disaccord, discord, dissidence, divergence, divergency, rent, variable), çatışma (battle, brush, clash, coincidence, conflict, disagreement, rencontre, run in, scrimmage, skirmish), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, foul, impact, rencontre, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, set to, skirmish, smash, smash up). (various references)

Turkmen		зaknyюyk (crash). (various references)

Ukrainian		сутичка (affair, affront, bump, bustle, clash, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencontre, rencounter, scramble, scrimmage, scrummage, shock, skirmish, tilt), суперечність (antagonism, antilogy, antinomy, conflict, contradiction, contrariety, gainsay, repugnance), колізія (impact), зіткнення (foul, osculation, skirmish). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự xung đột (conflict, contrariety, strife), sự va sự va chạm, sự đụng (touch). (various references)

Welsh		gwrthdrawiad. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adflictus, adflictusque, concursum, conlisionis, offensum, offensus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "collision": collisional, collisionally, collisions. (additional references)
	Words ending with "collision": anticollision. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Collision" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celmisia, Coalizao, colision, colition, Collessie, Collezione, Collishaw, collisium, collission, Colliton, collyrium, cullision, Rollison, Tollison. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "collision" (pronounced kuli"zhun)
4	-i" zh u n	circumcision, decision, derision, division, envision, excision, incision, indecision, misprision, precision, provision, recision, rescission, revision, supervision, vision.
3	-zh u n	abrasion, allusion, aspersion, aversion, cohesion, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, delusion, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, equation, erosion, evasion, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, inclusion, incursion, infusion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, lesion, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, perversion, preclusion, profusion, reversion, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, television, transfusion, version.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-l-n-o-o-s"
	-2 letters: collins, silicon.
	-3 letters: colins, coloni, colons, consol, ionics, nicols, solion.
	-4 letters: cions, clons, coils, coins, colin, colon, cools, coons, icons, ionic, linos, lions, locos, loins, loons, nicol, nills, noils, nolos, olios, scion, snool, solon, sonic.
	-5 letters: cion, clon, coil, coin, cols, coni, cons, cool, coon, coos, icon, ills, ions, lino, lins, lion, loci, loco.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-l-n-o-o-s"
	+1 letter: collisions, cotillions, octillions.
	+2 letters: collisional, colonialism, colonialist, oscillation, sinological.
	+3 letters: colligations, collimations, colonialisms, colonialists, colonializes, isotonically, oscillations, semicolonial, solifluction.
	+4 letters: anticollision, anticolonials, collisionally, colonialistic, duodecillions, lichenologies, lichenologist, localizations, misallocation, oscillational, solifluctions, violoncellist.
	+5 letters: antialcoholism, councillorship, jollifications, lichenologists, misallocations, mollifications, neocolonialism, neocolonialist, octodecillions, violoncellists.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
collision	139	collision elastic	13
collision repair	72	article car collision	12
car collision	62	truck collision	11
head on collision	60	auto body collision repair	10
collision earth thoery	47	collision damage waiver	10
collision theory	43	center collision reporting	10
caliber collision	42	center collision wheel	10
center collision	23	crocodile hunter collision course the	9
auto collision	22	plane collision	9
collision m2	20	train collision	9
collision head lyrics	18	world in collision	9
rear end collision	17	collision avoidance	9
collision shop	16	asteroid collision	9
collision part	15	automobile collision	9
collision auto repair	15	collision detection	9
traffic collision	15	collision services	8
collision found glory head lyrics new	15	collision ship	8
collision insurance	14	collision repair equipment	8
collision prestige	14	air collision mid	8
caliber center collision	13	car collision picture	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Collision

Definition: Collision

Collision

Noun

Specialty Definition: Collision

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Collision

Synonyms: Collision

Synonyms within Context: Collision

Contention

Counteraction

Impulse

Opposition

Recoil

Crosswords: Collision

Modern Usage: Collision

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Collision

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Collision

Illustrations:Collision

Computer Images:Collision

Photo Album: Collision

Sounds Captioned with "Collision".

Familiar Quotations: Collision

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use in Literature: Collision

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Collision

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Collision

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Usage Frequency: Collision

Expressions: Collision

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Collision

Modern Translation: Collision

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Faeroese

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Malay

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Collision

Illustrations:
Collision

Computer Images:
Collision