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collisionless

adj

Etymology

From collision + -less.

  1. derived from collīdere
  2. derived from collīsiō
  3. borrowed from collision
  4. suffixed as collisionless — “collision + less”

Definitions

  1. That does not involve a collision between particles, bodies, plasmas or waves.

  2. Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.

    • A token ring network is collisionless, but an Ethernet network is not.

  3. Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable…

    Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable lookup.

    • a collisionless hash

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for collisionless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA