Definition of collision in English:

collision

noun kəˈlɪʒ(ə)nkəˈlɪʒən

1An instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another.
（猛烈）碰撞
a mid-air collision between two aircraft
两架飞机在空中的相撞。
mass noun his car was in collision with a lorry
他的汽车撞上了一辆卡车。
Example sentencesExamples
- Less than an hour after the Potters Bar crash three people were killed and another two critically injured in a head-on collision between two cars in Llandudno in Wales.
- The pensioner was crossing Coniston Avenue when she was involved in collision with a Vauxhall Astra at 4.40 pm yesterday.
- It is believed the bike was in collision with one car, and then the rider struck another car as his bike spun off and caught fire.
- The day after the air crash, he was involved in more drama when he witnessed a head-on collision between two cars.
- Police received an accident report involving a collision between a car and a pickup truck on Sukhumvit Road in Sattahip.
- According to Gardai, the two articulated trucks were travelling in opposite directions when the collision occurred.
- Three people have died in a head-on collision between two cars in a weekend which also saw two police officers seriously injured in a separate road accident.
- This brought about a head-on collision between the crowd and the regular troops, who opened fire.
- She avoided a collision by swerving violently, but that caused her car to spin on to the wrong side of the road and collide with a lorry coming the other way, despite its driver braking heavily.
- The coach had left the castle at 4.20 pm on Saturday, and ten minutes later the accident happened when a Ford Transit van was in collision with the coach.
- It was twenty years ago that the 130th Boat Race had to be been postponed less than an hour before it was due to start because the Cambridge boat was in collision with a barge and sank.
- The spot-checks by the Vehicle Inspectorate follow a recent fatal accident in North Wales in which a motorcyclist was in collision with a car with tinted windows.
- A total of 1,231 drivers were tested after collisions, after committing moving traffic offences, or where officers suspected they had been drinking
- If they could be aided by some automation advising them on how they might resolve potential collisions or conflicts between aircraft then that could help.
- Controversy arose over a collision between Peter and the United goalie, Ray Wood, who was carried off, amid booing.
- An investigation has been launched after two people were seriously injured yesterday when their van was in collision with a train at a level crossing near Skegness.
- The interest in collisions of high-energy nuclei as a possible route to a new state of nuclear matter began with the emergence of QCD in the late 1970s.
- It also revealed that motorists are six times more likely to be involved in a fatal collision on a single carriageway than on a motorway.
- But the most serious collisions are when traffic comes into conflict, often on single carriageway sections.
- Five rail workers were among the victims of the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in thick fog near Bologna.
Synonyms
crash, accident, smash, bump, knock, impact, hit, strike, clash
British RTA (road traffic accident)
North American wreck
informal smash-up, pile-up
British informal prang, shunt
1. 1.1 A conflict between opposing ideas, interests, or factions.
  （观念、利益或派系间的）冲突；抵触
  a collision of two diverse cultures and languages
  Example sentencesExamples
  Through its intense and intelligent drama about the sometimes catastrophic collisions of ideas and experience, it also confronts our own notions of what then was and what now is.
  And more important, what can be done to soften the impact of the collision between soaring costs and ability to pay?
  Her sense of detail, love of story and playful use of language create an unstoppable collision of characters and ideas.
  Out of the collision of these ideas, and the failure to resolve the issues in Washington, emerged a new war.
  The collision between China and the US is a quarrel about ideas and concepts, not about things.
  What of the violent collision between profits and environmental limits?
  The episode underlined the cultural collision between the free - spirited Rainbow People and traditional Indian culture.
  That being the situation, it was not, it is submitted, if you like, a head-on collision between witness and cross-examiner.
  Nobody can now deny either the existence or the importance of the head-on collision between the prime minister and the chancellor.
  That what is going on is essentially, a collision of two cultures, with ours wrongly attempting to gain supremacy.
  The collision of ideas will certainly lead to justice and truth.
  The collision of ideas will strengthen, not weaken, a political party.
  The potential conflicts and collisions of systems that can in principle occur as between Community and member States do not occur in a legal vacuum, but in a space to which international law is also relevant.
  As we see here, the ramification of the collisions of two cultures is often witnessed in the conflicts between immigrant parents and their more acculturated children.
  I predict a major collision between the Copyright Office and the copyright industry in the coming months - let's hope posterity wins.
  Anti-discrimination laws, freedom of speech, democracy and tolerance education campaigns help to ease cultural collisions.
  But what Pinter's production clearly presents us with is a collision between two different forms of desperation.
  It's a collision between two very different views of what constitutes ownership.
  It is the first of what I predict will be many such collisions between the various vested interests in racing over the next few months.
  There is a huge hype over sugar substitutes, created through the collision of two very different schools of thought.
  Synonyms
  conflict, clash, opposition, disagreement, variance, incompatibility, contradiction
2Computing
An instance of two or more records being assigned the same identifier or location in memory.
〔计算机〕（内存）冲突，争用
1. 2.1 An instance of simultaneous transmission by more than one node of a network.
  多点传送
  Example sentencesExamples
  First, there is the problem that, as the standard is written, every node on the network is supposed to be able to hear every other node so they can detect collisions much as CDMA Ethernet does.
  This causes collisions, transmission errors and resultant retries that degrade overall system performance.
  The LAN must also be capable of handling streaming video from IP cameras or encoders without significant network packet collisions.
  Suddenly network collisions were becoming more and more frequent as backups generally took a larger percentage of network bandwidth.
  Only the computer that has the token controls network communications and thus collisions do not occur.

Phrases

on (a) collision course

1Going in a direction that will lead to a collision with another moving object or person.
向导致碰撞的方向运行
Example sentencesExamples
- At Manchester Airport in February a MyTravel Airways plane and a Ryanair aircraft were on collision course before take-off and disaster was averted only by the fast reactions of one of the pilots.
- Both drivers realised they were on collision course and applied their emergency brakes, halting the vehicles around two tram lengths apart.
- The vote again sets the Lords on collision course with the Commons in the long-fought battle over hunting.
- They have studiously avoided playing each other and, on the rare occasions when they have found themselves on collision course, they have side-stepped the issue, claiming injury.
- ‘Both parties are locked on collision course and it could take someone like Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to sort it all out,’ he warned.
- Last night's 190-vote majority in favour of hunting put MPs on collision course with peers, who last year blocked an earlier effort to outlaw blood sports.
- It indicates no distinction between the colours of normal flights and flights on collision course.
- Future discoveries and space missions would provide information about how to deflect an asteroid on collision course with Earth.
- Unions and management at Aer Lingus are on collision course over a controversial redundancy package that amounts to little more than the legal minimum payout.
- This move by Falkirk could put the SPL on collision course with the SFA, leading to the long-predicted battle for the control of Scottish football.
1. 1.1Adopting an approach that is certain to lead to conflict with another person or group.
  采取导致冲突的方法（或态度）的；走强硬路线的；处于必然会引起冲突的局面中的
  the strikers are on a collision course with the government
  护士们对政府的态度很强硬。

Derivatives

collisional

adjective

With the collisional history of Mars, you're dealing with a history of billions of years.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is not yet certain whether the high-grade metamorphism and granite formation at c.930 Ma are related to a ‘Grenvillian’ or slightly younger collisional event, or to an episode of rifting and crustal thinning.
- In the innermost region of the disk out of which our sun and solar system formed, collisional accumulation leads over the course of several tens of millions of years to the formation of Earthsized rocky planets.
- The Florence team showed that the non-interacting fermions cannot support a DC current, which is what is expected given their special collisional properties and leads to a pinning of the atoms to their local displaced position.
- The rocks have a MORB-type geochemistry, and have been attributed to shallow melting of asthenospheric mantle, following removal and thinning of lithospheric mantle beneath the collisional orogen in late Oligocene time.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin collisio(n-), from Latin collidere 'strike together' (see collide).

Rhymes

circumcision, concision, decision, derision, division, elision, envision, excision, imprecision, incision, misprision, precisian, precision, provision, scission, vision

Definition of collision in US English:

collision

nounkəˈlɪʒənkəˈliZHən

1An instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another.
（猛烈）碰撞
a midair collision between two aircraft
两架飞机在空中的相撞。
the device increases the chances of collision
Example sentencesExamples
- The coach had left the castle at 4.20 pm on Saturday, and ten minutes later the accident happened when a Ford Transit van was in collision with the coach.
- Police received an accident report involving a collision between a car and a pickup truck on Sukhumvit Road in Sattahip.
- Less than an hour after the Potters Bar crash three people were killed and another two critically injured in a head-on collision between two cars in Llandudno in Wales.
- An investigation has been launched after two people were seriously injured yesterday when their van was in collision with a train at a level crossing near Skegness.
- It also revealed that motorists are six times more likely to be involved in a fatal collision on a single carriageway than on a motorway.
- Three people have died in a head-on collision between two cars in a weekend which also saw two police officers seriously injured in a separate road accident.
- The interest in collisions of high-energy nuclei as a possible route to a new state of nuclear matter began with the emergence of QCD in the late 1970s.
- The day after the air crash, he was involved in more drama when he witnessed a head-on collision between two cars.
- Five rail workers were among the victims of the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in thick fog near Bologna.
- This brought about a head-on collision between the crowd and the regular troops, who opened fire.
- According to Gardai, the two articulated trucks were travelling in opposite directions when the collision occurred.
- But the most serious collisions are when traffic comes into conflict, often on single carriageway sections.
- It is believed the bike was in collision with one car, and then the rider struck another car as his bike spun off and caught fire.
- The pensioner was crossing Coniston Avenue when she was involved in collision with a Vauxhall Astra at 4.40 pm yesterday.
- She avoided a collision by swerving violently, but that caused her car to spin on to the wrong side of the road and collide with a lorry coming the other way, despite its driver braking heavily.
- Controversy arose over a collision between Peter and the United goalie, Ray Wood, who was carried off, amid booing.
- A total of 1,231 drivers were tested after collisions, after committing moving traffic offences, or where officers suspected they had been drinking
- It was twenty years ago that the 130th Boat Race had to be been postponed less than an hour before it was due to start because the Cambridge boat was in collision with a barge and sank.
- The spot-checks by the Vehicle Inspectorate follow a recent fatal accident in North Wales in which a motorcyclist was in collision with a car with tinted windows.
- If they could be aided by some automation advising them on how they might resolve potential collisions or conflicts between aircraft then that could help.
Synonyms
crash, accident, smash, bump, knock, impact, hit, strike, clash
1. 1.1 An instance of conflict between opposing ideas, interests, or factions.
  （观念、利益或派系间的）冲突；抵触
  a collision between experience and theory
  cultures in collision
  Example sentencesExamples
  Out of the collision of these ideas, and the failure to resolve the issues in Washington, emerged a new war.
  The collision between China and the US is a quarrel about ideas and concepts, not about things.
  The episode underlined the cultural collision between the free - spirited Rainbow People and traditional Indian culture.
  Through its intense and intelligent drama about the sometimes catastrophic collisions of ideas and experience, it also confronts our own notions of what then was and what now is.
  It's a collision between two very different views of what constitutes ownership.
  The collision of ideas will certainly lead to justice and truth.
  The collision of ideas will strengthen, not weaken, a political party.
  And more important, what can be done to soften the impact of the collision between soaring costs and ability to pay?
  What of the violent collision between profits and environmental limits?
  Her sense of detail, love of story and playful use of language create an unstoppable collision of characters and ideas.
  As we see here, the ramification of the collisions of two cultures is often witnessed in the conflicts between immigrant parents and their more acculturated children.
  It is the first of what I predict will be many such collisions between the various vested interests in racing over the next few months.
  Nobody can now deny either the existence or the importance of the head-on collision between the prime minister and the chancellor.
  Anti-discrimination laws, freedom of speech, democracy and tolerance education campaigns help to ease cultural collisions.
  The potential conflicts and collisions of systems that can in principle occur as between Community and member States do not occur in a legal vacuum, but in a space to which international law is also relevant.
  There is a huge hype over sugar substitutes, created through the collision of two very different schools of thought.
  That being the situation, it was not, it is submitted, if you like, a head-on collision between witness and cross-examiner.
  I predict a major collision between the Copyright Office and the copyright industry in the coming months - let's hope posterity wins.
  That what is going on is essentially, a collision of two cultures, with ours wrongly attempting to gain supremacy.
  But what Pinter's production clearly presents us with is a collision between two different forms of desperation.
  Synonyms
  conflict, clash, opposition, disagreement, variance, incompatibility, contradiction
2Computing
An event of two or more records being assigned the same identifier or location in memory.
〔计算机〕（内存）冲突，争用
1. 2.1 An instance of simultaneous transmission by more than one node of a network.
  多点传送
  Example sentencesExamples
  This causes collisions, transmission errors and resultant retries that degrade overall system performance.
  Suddenly network collisions were becoming more and more frequent as backups generally took a larger percentage of network bandwidth.
  First, there is the problem that, as the standard is written, every node on the network is supposed to be able to hear every other node so they can detect collisions much as CDMA Ethernet does.
  The LAN must also be capable of handling streaming video from IP cameras or encoders without significant network packet collisions.
  Only the computer that has the token controls network communications and thus collisions do not occur.

Phrases

on (a) collision course

1Going in a direction that will lead to a collision with another moving object or person.
向导致碰撞的方向运行
Example sentencesExamples
- Future discoveries and space missions would provide information about how to deflect an asteroid on collision course with Earth.
- Both drivers realised they were on collision course and applied their emergency brakes, halting the vehicles around two tram lengths apart.
- It indicates no distinction between the colours of normal flights and flights on collision course.
- The vote again sets the Lords on collision course with the Commons in the long-fought battle over hunting.
- At Manchester Airport in February a MyTravel Airways plane and a Ryanair aircraft were on collision course before take-off and disaster was averted only by the fast reactions of one of the pilots.
- ‘Both parties are locked on collision course and it could take someone like Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to sort it all out,’ he warned.
- Last night's 190-vote majority in favour of hunting put MPs on collision course with peers, who last year blocked an earlier effort to outlaw blood sports.
- This move by Falkirk could put the SPL on collision course with the SFA, leading to the long-predicted battle for the control of Scottish football.
- They have studiously avoided playing each other and, on the rare occasions when they have found themselves on collision course, they have side-stepped the issue, claiming injury.
- Unions and management at Aer Lingus are on collision course over a controversial redundancy package that amounts to little more than the legal minimum payout.
1. 1.1Adopting an approach that is certain to lead to conflict with another person or group.
  采取导致冲突的方法（或态度）的；走强硬路线的；处于必然会引起冲突的局面中的
  the strikers are on a collision course with the government
  护士们对政府的态度很强硬。

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin collisio(n-), from Latin collidere ‘strike together’ (see collide).

词汇	collision
释义	Definition of collision in English: collision noun kəˈlɪʒ(ə)nkəˈlɪʒən 1An instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another. （猛烈）碰撞 a mid-air collision between two aircraft 两架飞机在空中的相撞。 mass noun his car was in collision with a lorry 他的汽车撞上了一辆卡车。 Example sentencesExamples Less than an hour after the Potters Bar crash three people were killed and another two critically injured in a head-on collision between two cars in Llandudno in Wales. The pensioner was crossing Coniston Avenue when she was involved in collision with a Vauxhall Astra at 4.40 pm yesterday. It is believed the bike was in collision with one car, and then the rider struck another car as his bike spun off and caught fire. The day after the air crash, he was involved in more drama when he witnessed a head-on collision between two cars. Police received an accident report involving a collision between a car and a pickup truck on Sukhumvit Road in Sattahip. According to Gardai, the two articulated trucks were travelling in opposite directions when the collision occurred. Three people have died in a head-on collision between two cars in a weekend which also saw two police officers seriously injured in a separate road accident. This brought about a head-on collision between the crowd and the regular troops, who opened fire. She avoided a collision by swerving violently, but that caused her car to spin on to the wrong side of the road and collide with a lorry coming the other way, despite its driver braking heavily. The coach had left the castle at 4.20 pm on Saturday, and ten minutes later the accident happened when a Ford Transit van was in collision with the coach. It was twenty years ago that the 130th Boat Race had to be been postponed less than an hour before it was due to start because the Cambridge boat was in collision with a barge and sank. The spot-checks by the Vehicle Inspectorate follow a recent fatal accident in North Wales in which a motorcyclist was in collision with a car with tinted windows. A total of 1,231 drivers were tested after collisions, after committing moving traffic offences, or where officers suspected they had been drinking If they could be aided by some automation advising them on how they might resolve potential collisions or conflicts between aircraft then that could help. Controversy arose over a collision between Peter and the United goalie, Ray Wood, who was carried off, amid booing. An investigation has been launched after two people were seriously injured yesterday when their van was in collision with a train at a level crossing near Skegness. The interest in collisions of high-energy nuclei as a possible route to a new state of nuclear matter began with the emergence of QCD in the late 1970s. It also revealed that motorists are six times more likely to be involved in a fatal collision on a single carriageway than on a motorway. But the most serious collisions are when traffic comes into conflict, often on single carriageway sections. Five rail workers were among the victims of the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in thick fog near Bologna. Synonyms crash, accident, smash, bump, knock, impact, hit, strike, clash British RTA (road traffic accident) North American wreck informal smash-up, pile-up British informal prang, shunt 1.1 A conflict between opposing ideas, interests, or factions. （观念、利益或派系间的）冲突；抵触 a collision of two diverse cultures and languages Example sentencesExamples Through its intense and intelligent drama about the sometimes catastrophic collisions of ideas and experience, it also confronts our own notions of what then was and what now is. And more important, what can be done to soften the impact of the collision between soaring costs and ability to pay? Her sense of detail, love of story and playful use of language create an unstoppable collision of characters and ideas. Out of the collision of these ideas, and the failure to resolve the issues in Washington, emerged a new war. The collision between China and the US is a quarrel about ideas and concepts, not about things. What of the violent collision between profits and environmental limits? The episode underlined the cultural collision between the free - spirited Rainbow People and traditional Indian culture. That being the situation, it was not, it is submitted, if you like, a head-on collision between witness and cross-examiner. Nobody can now deny either the existence or the importance of the head-on collision between the prime minister and the chancellor. That what is going on is essentially, a collision of two cultures, with ours wrongly attempting to gain supremacy. The collision of ideas will certainly lead to justice and truth. The collision of ideas will strengthen, not weaken, a political party. The potential conflicts and collisions of systems that can in principle occur as between Community and member States do not occur in a legal vacuum, but in a space to which international law is also relevant. As we see here, the ramification of the collisions of two cultures is often witnessed in the conflicts between immigrant parents and their more acculturated children. I predict a major collision between the Copyright Office and the copyright industry in the coming months - let's hope posterity wins. Anti-discrimination laws, freedom of speech, democracy and tolerance education campaigns help to ease cultural collisions. But what Pinter's production clearly presents us with is a collision between two different forms of desperation. It's a collision between two very different views of what constitutes ownership. It is the first of what I predict will be many such collisions between the various vested interests in racing over the next few months. There is a huge hype over sugar substitutes, created through the collision of two very different schools of thought. Synonyms conflict, clash, opposition, disagreement, variance, incompatibility, contradiction 2Computing An instance of two or more records being assigned the same identifier or location in memory. 〔计算机〕（内存）冲突，争用 2.1 An instance of simultaneous transmission by more than one node of a network. 多点传送 Example sentencesExamples First, there is the problem that, as the standard is written, every node on the network is supposed to be able to hear every other node so they can detect collisions much as CDMA Ethernet does. This causes collisions, transmission errors and resultant retries that degrade overall system performance. The LAN must also be capable of handling streaming video from IP cameras or encoders without significant network packet collisions. Suddenly network collisions were becoming more and more frequent as backups generally took a larger percentage of network bandwidth. Only the computer that has the token controls network communications and thus collisions do not occur. Phrases on (a) collision course 1Going in a direction that will lead to a collision with another moving object or person. 向导致碰撞的方向运行 Example sentencesExamples At Manchester Airport in February a MyTravel Airways plane and a Ryanair aircraft were on collision course before take-off and disaster was averted only by the fast reactions of one of the pilots. Both drivers realised they were on collision course and applied their emergency brakes, halting the vehicles around two tram lengths apart. The vote again sets the Lords on collision course with the Commons in the long-fought battle over hunting. They have studiously avoided playing each other and, on the rare occasions when they have found themselves on collision course, they have side-stepped the issue, claiming injury. ‘Both parties are locked on collision course and it could take someone like Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to sort it all out,’ he warned. Last night's 190-vote majority in favour of hunting put MPs on collision course with peers, who last year blocked an earlier effort to outlaw blood sports. It indicates no distinction between the colours of normal flights and flights on collision course. Future discoveries and space missions would provide information about how to deflect an asteroid on collision course with Earth. Unions and management at Aer Lingus are on collision course over a controversial redundancy package that amounts to little more than the legal minimum payout. This move by Falkirk could put the SPL on collision course with the SFA, leading to the long-predicted battle for the control of Scottish football. 1.1Adopting an approach that is certain to lead to conflict with another person or group. 采取导致冲突的方法（或态度）的；走强硬路线的；处于必然会引起冲突的局面中的 the strikers are on a collision course with the government 护士们对政府的态度很强硬。 Derivatives collisional adjective With the collisional history of Mars, you're dealing with a history of billions of years. Example sentencesExamples It is not yet certain whether the high-grade metamorphism and granite formation at c.930 Ma are related to a ‘Grenvillian’ or slightly younger collisional event, or to an episode of rifting and crustal thinning. In the innermost region of the disk out of which our sun and solar system formed, collisional accumulation leads over the course of several tens of millions of years to the formation of Earthsized rocky planets. The Florence team showed that the non-interacting fermions cannot support a DC current, which is what is expected given their special collisional properties and leads to a pinning of the atoms to their local displaced position. The rocks have a MORB-type geochemistry, and have been attributed to shallow melting of asthenospheric mantle, following removal and thinning of lithospheric mantle beneath the collisional orogen in late Oligocene time. Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin collisio(n-), from Latin collidere 'strike together' (see collide). Rhymes circumcision, concision, decision, derision, division, elision, envision, excision, imprecision, incision, misprision, precisian, precision, provision, scission, vision noun.1 phr. Definition of collision in US English: collision nounkəˈlɪʒənkəˈliZHən 1An instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another. （猛烈）碰撞 a midair collision between two aircraft 两架飞机在空中的相撞。 the device increases the chances of collision Example sentencesExamples The coach had left the castle at 4.20 pm on Saturday, and ten minutes later the accident happened when a Ford Transit van was in collision with the coach. Police received an accident report involving a collision between a car and a pickup truck on Sukhumvit Road in Sattahip. Less than an hour after the Potters Bar crash three people were killed and another two critically injured in a head-on collision between two cars in Llandudno in Wales. An investigation has been launched after two people were seriously injured yesterday when their van was in collision with a train at a level crossing near Skegness. It also revealed that motorists are six times more likely to be involved in a fatal collision on a single carriageway than on a motorway. Three people have died in a head-on collision between two cars in a weekend which also saw two police officers seriously injured in a separate road accident. The interest in collisions of high-energy nuclei as a possible route to a new state of nuclear matter began with the emergence of QCD in the late 1970s. The day after the air crash, he was involved in more drama when he witnessed a head-on collision between two cars. Five rail workers were among the victims of the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in thick fog near Bologna. This brought about a head-on collision between the crowd and the regular troops, who opened fire. According to Gardai, the two articulated trucks were travelling in opposite directions when the collision occurred. But the most serious collisions are when traffic comes into conflict, often on single carriageway sections. It is believed the bike was in collision with one car, and then the rider struck another car as his bike spun off and caught fire. The pensioner was crossing Coniston Avenue when she was involved in collision with a Vauxhall Astra at 4.40 pm yesterday. She avoided a collision by swerving violently, but that caused her car to spin on to the wrong side of the road and collide with a lorry coming the other way, despite its driver braking heavily. Controversy arose over a collision between Peter and the United goalie, Ray Wood, who was carried off, amid booing. A total of 1,231 drivers were tested after collisions, after committing moving traffic offences, or where officers suspected they had been drinking It was twenty years ago that the 130th Boat Race had to be been postponed less than an hour before it was due to start because the Cambridge boat was in collision with a barge and sank. The spot-checks by the Vehicle Inspectorate follow a recent fatal accident in North Wales in which a motorcyclist was in collision with a car with tinted windows. If they could be aided by some automation advising them on how they might resolve potential collisions or conflicts between aircraft then that could help. Synonyms crash, accident, smash, bump, knock, impact, hit, strike, clash 1.1 An instance of conflict between opposing ideas, interests, or factions. （观念、利益或派系间的）冲突；抵触 a collision between experience and theory cultures in collision Example sentencesExamples Out of the collision of these ideas, and the failure to resolve the issues in Washington, emerged a new war. The collision between China and the US is a quarrel about ideas and concepts, not about things. The episode underlined the cultural collision between the free - spirited Rainbow People and traditional Indian culture. Through its intense and intelligent drama about the sometimes catastrophic collisions of ideas and experience, it also confronts our own notions of what then was and what now is. It's a collision between two very different views of what constitutes ownership. The collision of ideas will certainly lead to justice and truth. The collision of ideas will strengthen, not weaken, a political party. And more important, what can be done to soften the impact of the collision between soaring costs and ability to pay? What of the violent collision between profits and environmental limits? Her sense of detail, love of story and playful use of language create an unstoppable collision of characters and ideas. As we see here, the ramification of the collisions of two cultures is often witnessed in the conflicts between immigrant parents and their more acculturated children. It is the first of what I predict will be many such collisions between the various vested interests in racing over the next few months. Nobody can now deny either the existence or the importance of the head-on collision between the prime minister and the chancellor. Anti-discrimination laws, freedom of speech, democracy and tolerance education campaigns help to ease cultural collisions. The potential conflicts and collisions of systems that can in principle occur as between Community and member States do not occur in a legal vacuum, but in a space to which international law is also relevant. There is a huge hype over sugar substitutes, created through the collision of two very different schools of thought. That being the situation, it was not, it is submitted, if you like, a head-on collision between witness and cross-examiner. I predict a major collision between the Copyright Office and the copyright industry in the coming months - let's hope posterity wins. That what is going on is essentially, a collision of two cultures, with ours wrongly attempting to gain supremacy. But what Pinter's production clearly presents us with is a collision between two different forms of desperation. Synonyms conflict, clash, opposition, disagreement, variance, incompatibility, contradiction 2Computing An event of two or more records being assigned the same identifier or location in memory. 〔计算机〕（内存）冲突，争用 2.1 An instance of simultaneous transmission by more than one node of a network. 多点传送 Example sentencesExamples This causes collisions, transmission errors and resultant retries that degrade overall system performance. Suddenly network collisions were becoming more and more frequent as backups generally took a larger percentage of network bandwidth. First, there is the problem that, as the standard is written, every node on the network is supposed to be able to hear every other node so they can detect collisions much as CDMA Ethernet does. The LAN must also be capable of handling streaming video from IP cameras or encoders without significant network packet collisions. Only the computer that has the token controls network communications and thus collisions do not occur. Phrases on (a) collision course 1Going in a direction that will lead to a collision with another moving object or person. 向导致碰撞的方向运行 Example sentencesExamples Future discoveries and space missions would provide information about how to deflect an asteroid on collision course with Earth. Both drivers realised they were on collision course and applied their emergency brakes, halting the vehicles around two tram lengths apart. It indicates no distinction between the colours of normal flights and flights on collision course. The vote again sets the Lords on collision course with the Commons in the long-fought battle over hunting. At Manchester Airport in February a MyTravel Airways plane and a Ryanair aircraft were on collision course before take-off and disaster was averted only by the fast reactions of one of the pilots. ‘Both parties are locked on collision course and it could take someone like Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to sort it all out,’ he warned. Last night's 190-vote majority in favour of hunting put MPs on collision course with peers, who last year blocked an earlier effort to outlaw blood sports. This move by Falkirk could put the SPL on collision course with the SFA, leading to the long-predicted battle for the control of Scottish football. They have studiously avoided playing each other and, on the rare occasions when they have found themselves on collision course, they have side-stepped the issue, claiming injury. Unions and management at Aer Lingus are on collision course over a controversial redundancy package that amounts to little more than the legal minimum payout. 1.1Adopting an approach that is certain to lead to conflict with another person or group. 采取导致冲突的方法（或态度）的；走强硬路线的；处于必然会引起冲突的局面中的 the strikers are on a collision course with the government 护士们对政府的态度很强硬。 Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin collisio(n-), from Latin collidere ‘strike together’ (see collide). noun.1 phr.
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