Usually means: Impact between two or more objects.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. collision: Merriam-Webster
  2. collision: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collision: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collision: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collision: Vocabulary.com
  6. Collision, collision: Wordnik
  7. collision: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. collision: Wiktionary
  9. collision: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. collision: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. collision: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Collision, collision: Dictionary.com
  13. collision: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. collision: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Collision (Heroes), Collision (Lost), Collision (TV series), Collision (band), Collision (computer science), Collision (disambiguation), Collision (telecommunications), Collision: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Collision: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. collision: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. collision: Rhymezone
  19. Collision: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. collision: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. collision: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. collision: FreeDictionary.org
  23. collision: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. collision: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. collision: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. collision: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. collision: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. collision: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. collision: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. collision: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. collision: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Collision: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collision: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See collisional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An instance of colliding.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (software compilation) Clipping of naming collision. [(software compilation) An error caused by two source code elements (such as variables or functions) having the same name as each other.]
noun:  (computing, chiefly video games) Clipping of collision detection; tangibility. [(computing, chiefly video games) The process or mechanism of determining whether two shapes are partially occupying the same space.]

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