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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collision \Col*li"sion\, noun [L. collisio, fr. collidere. See {Collide}.]
1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.
The collision of contrary false principles. --Bp. Warburton.
Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. --W. Irving.
Syn: Conflict; clashing; encounter; opposition.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
collision
noun
1: (physics) an 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" [syn: {hit}]
2: an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object; "three passengers were killed in the collision"; "the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill"
3: a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a collision of interests"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "collision": accident, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, appulse, backlash, bad blood, belligerence, blow, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, calamity, cannon, carambole, carom, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, clash, clashing, competition, concussion, conflict, confrontation, confutation, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, contretemps, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crack-up, crankiness, crash, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, crump, crunch, demolishment, despitefulness, destruction, dilapidation, disaccord, disagreement, disaster, discrepancy, dissension, dissent, encounter, enmity, fractiousness, friction, grief, hammering, hate, hatred, hostility, ill hap, impact, impingement, inconsistency, inimicalness, interference, jar, jolt, kick, malevolence, malice, malignity, mauling, meeting, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, near-miss, negativeness, nonconformity, noncooperation, obstinacy, onslaught, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, percussion, perverseness, perversity, pileup, polarity, quarrelsomeness, ramming, reaction, recalcitrance, recoil, refractoriness, renitency, repercussion, repugnance, resistance, revolt, rivalry, ruin, shipwreck, shock, showdown, sideswipe, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, smashup, spite, spitefulness, staggering blow, swimming upstream, thrusting, tragedy, uncooperativeness, vying, whomp, wreck
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
collision
1. When two {hosts} transmit on a {network} at once causing their {packets} to collide and corrupt each other. See {collision detection}. 2. {hash collision}. (1995-01-06)
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