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[ UK /kəlˈɪʒən/ ]
[ US /kəˈɫɪʒən/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. (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
  3. 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
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