collision
noun
the act of colliding; a coming violently into contact; crash.
collisional
-
a word derived from
collision.
Example Sentences
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"Our data indicate that the most significant collisional events between Central and South America occurred earlier than we previously thought, mainly during the Oligocene-middle Miocene," explain Piedrahita and Li.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
In this approach, pebbles in a protoplanetary disk bypass the collisional bottleneck by settling into self-gravitating clouds, rapidly compressing under their own weight to directly collapse into planetesimals.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 20, 2020
Sochi is one of several venues with this collisional aesthetic.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2018
The eroded remains of the collisional mountains formed on Pangea are still in existence today as the Appalachian, Alleghanian, Scandinavian, Marathon, and Ouachita Mountain ranges.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The orbits of the present planets are the orbits of the survivors of this collisional natural selection, the stable middle age of a solar system dominated by early catastrophic impacts.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
