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発音

• IPA: /kəˈlɪʒn̩/
• 韻: -ɪʒən

名詞

collision (countable and uncountable, plural collisions)

1. An instance of colliding.

   He has retired due to the collision.

   • 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:

     At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.

2. (physics) Any event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other in a relatively short time. In a collision, physical contact of two bodies is not necessary.
3. (software compilation) Clipping of naming collision.
4. (computing, chiefly video games) Clipping of collision detection; tangibility.

下位語

等位語

• allision

派生語

関連する語

• collide

Further reading

• “collision”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “collision”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.