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supercollision

noun

Etymology

From super- + collision.

  1. derived from collīdere
  2. derived from collīsiō
  3. borrowed from collision
  4. prefixed as supercollision — “super + collision”

Definitions

  1. A very powerful or large-scale collision.

    • Is it possible that the majority of asteroids were born is ^([sic]) this very supercollision that created the moon?

  2. The kind of high-energy collision that occurs in a supercollider.

  3. The simultaneous collision of three or more particles.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for supercollision. 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