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UK
/kəlˈɪʒən/
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[ US /kəˈɫɪʒən/ ]
[ US /kəˈɫɪʒən/ ]
NOUN
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an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object
the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill
three passengers were killed in the collision -
(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 -
a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals
a collision of interests
How To Use collision In A Sentence
- We berate those who cross the line and leave the immature and underdeveloped open to the physical abuse of contact and collision sports.
- A well-known waterman at Selby said that the river was in a fearful condition, and this had a good deal to do with the reported collisions taking place and damage done to boats on their voyages to and from the town.
- Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
- The first followed a head on collision with a bus, where she had to be cut out of the car and fortunately her only injury was severe whiplash.
- It was responsible for the mid-air collision last month between a cargo plane and a Russian airliner.
- Quarterback Brady Anderson was injured in an unfortunate collision with one of his team-mates.
- Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman Bill Kwong says in an email that Toyota is also designing vehicles with 'front crush boxes, ' which are designed so they can be unbolted after a collision and replaced.
- Apart from the two fatalities, there have been two serious injury accidents and four minor collisions.
- There had even been, the nurses told Anastasia's mother, a terrible collision involving a bedpan. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
- I hung a sharp left, sharp right, sharp left -- that car birddogged collision close. Hollywood Nocturne