Definition: 1. (physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together. 2. An accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object. 3. A conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals.
Use 'collision' in a sentence:
1. This collision had a very unusual cause.
2. There is an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth.
3. Both planes crashed within seconds of a midair collision.
4. There was a three-car collision on the motorway.
5. The method gives ways to evaluate collision speed in traffic accident reconstructions.
6. The rest of us have to evade them or just stand still to wait for the unavoidable collision.
7. For similar cars and drivers, automobile insurance for collision damage has always cost more in Greatport than in Fairmont.
8. He heard tires squeal as the car braked to avoid a collision.
9. He said it was true that a collision had happened.
10. With so much stuff in space, and a limited area around our planet, the government wants to reduce the chances of a collision.
11. It was the world's second worst air disaster, a horrific re-run of the runway collision in 1977.
12. Such a titanic collision between Earth and a Mars-size impactor may have given rise to Earth's Moon.
13. Their car was in a head-on collision with a truck.
14. Geologic evidence shows that southern African has been slowly rising for the past 100 million years, yet it has not experienced a tectonic collision for nearly 400 million years.
15. The back of the car was badly dented in the collision.
16. His political activities brought him into collision with the law.
17. He severely injured his ankle in a collision at home plate.
18. The force of collision spewed large amounts of debris into the atmosphere, darkening the skies for several years before the finer particles settled.
19. In a titanic collision model, the bulk of the Moon would have formed from a combination of material from the impactor and Earth's mantle.
20. Four persons were killed in a collision between a bus and a train.
21. Britain's universities are set on a collision course with the government.
22. According to the giant-impact hypothesis, the Moon was created during a collision between Earth and a large object about the size of Mars.
23. Fortunately, the collision hypothesis is testable.
24. The air bag would inflate in event of a collision to cushion front seat passengers.
25. The two communities are now on a collision course.
26. The cause of the collision was not immediately known.
27. His car was damaged in a collision.
28. I saw a head-on collision between two aeroplanes.
29. Debris thrown into the atmosphere by an asteroid collision would presumably contain large amounts of iridium, and atmospheric currents would carry this material all over the globe.
30. The consequent collisions with state power weakened its impetus.
31. The play represents the collision of three generations.
32. The Cartwheel Galaxy shows a ring that is the result of a collision between a small and a large galaxy.
33. Theorizing a titanic collision eliminates postulating a too-rapidly spinning Earth and accounts for the Moon's peculiar composition.
34. One problem with the collision hypothesis is the question of how a satellite formed in this way could have settled into the nearly circular orbit that the Moon has today.
35. Pluto seems to have suffered a major collision that tipped it 122 degrees from the vertical.
36. There was a slight collision but my car was undamaged.
37. They were on their way to the Shropshire Union Canal when their van was involved in a collision with a car.
38. In the Philippines, a ferry carrying at least 400 people has sunk after an apparent collision with a cargo ship.
39. They were on their way to the airport when their van was involved in a collision with a car.
40. A giant iceberg was on a collision course with the ship.
41. The car was a worthless wreck after the collision.
42. Stewart was injured in a collision with another player.
43. Certain truck gasoline tanks can rupture and burn in a collision.
44. The front and rear of the car will crumple during a collision.
45. Certain petrol tanks in trucks can rupture and burn in a collision.
46. In his work we see the collision of two different traditions.
47. The nearside wing was damaged in the collision.
48. His car was in collision with a motorbike.
49. The collision took place in the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
50. It's the collision of disparate ideas that alters one's perspective.
