What is another word for collisions?

Pronunciation: [kəlˈɪʒənz] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "collisions" that can be used depending on the context of the sentence. One of the most commonly used synonyms is "crash", which refers to a violent impact between two or more objects. Another synonym is "accident", which denotes an unfortunate event that results in damage or injury. "Smash" is also used to refer to a violent collision, especially when talking about car accidents. In addition, "impact" is a wider term that can be used to refer to both intentional and unintentional collisions. Finally, "wreck" is a synonym that is used specifically for a collision that results in a significant amount of damage.

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Usage examples for Collisions

The promoters of the movement were anxious to avoid all appearance of opposition to a body of Irishmen whom, however they might differ from them and no matter what collisions with them might occur later, they respected for their vigour and resolution: on the other hand they desired to make it perfectly plain that Ulster was not the only part of Ireland that had the courage to proclaim its intention of standing up for its rights.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
The drawings of Saturn made two centuries ago agree among themselves in representing the rings as larger than they now appear, and there is some reason to suppose that as a consequence of mutual disturbances-collisions-their momentum is being slowly wasted so that ultimately they must be precipitated into the planet.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
collisions between vessels less known than those named are of weekly occurrence.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan

Famous quotes with Collisions

  • Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
    Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
    Alfred Kastler
  • Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
    Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of Englishit is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.
    Spiro Agnew
  • A small, but interesting, portion of baseball can be understood on the basis of physical principles. The flight of balls, the liveliness of balls, the structure of bats, and the character of the collisions of balls and bats are a natural province of physics and physicists.
    Robert Adair (physicist)

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