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How to pronounce collision in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hit
Type of striking, contact, impinging
Derivation collide


the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction.
Type Words
Type of dispute, conflict, difference, difference of opinion
Derivation collide


a collision of interests.
Type Words
Type of accident
Has types pileup, smash-up, fender-bender, smash
Derivation collide


three passengers were killed in the collision.
the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill.

Examples of collision

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Taiwan and China aren't the only ones on a possible collision course these days.
From the businessweek.com
How much warning will we get if an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth?
From the dispatch.com
Everyone remembers the collision and how Posey and Sandoval fell down in a heap.
From the sacbee.com
After the collision, Willing's car rolled, injuring him and his 10-year-old son.
From the thenewstribune.com
Our main focus is collision work, to repair a vehicle to pre-accident condition.
From the democratandchronicle.com
A second study suggested texting raised the risk of collision by a factor of 23.
From the sciencedaily.com
The signatures of a bubble collision at various stages in the analysis pipeline.
From the sciencedaily.com
The Cat hit his head in a collision with James Podsiadly's hip against St Kilda.
From the dailytelegraph.com.au
Siva spent five hours in the hospital on Saturday after a collision in practice.
From the courier-journal.com
More examples
  • (physics) a 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"
  • 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"
  • A conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a collision of interests"
  • (collide) clash: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"
  • Cause to collide; "The physicists collided the particles"
  • (collide) crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed"
  • A collision is an isolated event in which two or more bodies (colliding bodies) exert relatively strong forces on each other for a relatively short time. The acceleration can be very large during a short time.
  • In computer science, a collision or clash is a situation that occurs when two distinct pieces of data have the same hash value, checksum, fingerprint, or cryptographic digest.
  • The following is a list of episodes from the USA Network original series The Dead Zone. The series debuted on June 16, 2002.